Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!clark@grdian.DEC (Dave Clark, 283-6322) From: clark@grdian.DEC (Dave Clark, 283-6322) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: re: The true God lives in the real world Message-ID: <56@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:35:41 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.56 Posted: Wed Aug 21 09:35:41 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:18:00 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 25 Paul - if your description of God is correct, then He isn't very efficient in His purpose. The world should be a much more terrible place in which to live than it is, shouldn't it? Plus, most of the "evil" you have described as having been perpetrated by your God has actually been committed by mankind. Wait a minute, you said something about there being no free will ... that must mean that God has used men to destroy other men, correct? They didn't actually choose to do it. Well, Paul, did you choose to write your article? Why has He allowed YOU to reveal His true nature to us? Actually, your theory of the nature of God is no better an explanation than any other I've heard .... Paul, even though you may have been hurt by people in your lifetime, you don't need to concoct an anti-theory to validate your feelings. It's all one big cry for help, isn't it? You talk about a "built-in revulsion for suicide," but I believe that if you continue in your line of thinking, you will eventually find the idea of suicide not so revolting after all, and it will be entirely of your own doing. Of course, it's possible that the sole purpose of your articles was to point out the hypocracy and absurdity of the Christian God, but you claim that there was no satire involved. Could you tell me why you choose to believe in a malevolent deity rather than no deity at all? "What lies behind us and what lies before us Dave Clark are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson