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From: scs@wucs.UUCP (Steve Swope)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Reply to Jon Gallagher
Message-ID: <1165@wucs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 17:29:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 17:29:25 1985
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In article <343@pyuxn.UUCP>, pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman) writes:
> 
> ... But then you go off on an obscure tangent. You ask about soothing
> voices from within us, our civilized behavior, and charity, and you assume
> all this comes from God? Jon, all this is what is within us naturally as
> human beings! Certainly none of us needs to be attributed to what we know
                                                                    ^^ ^^^^
No. what *you claim*.

> to be a hideous Damager-God. You say that ``if [I] posit such a creature
> [as the Damager-God] then it is responsible for our existence.''  How can
> you claim this?

If you claim that a damager-god created us to suffer (for its enjoyment), you
imply that whatever is within us was created by it as well. If you claim that
it did not create us, but merely tortures us, you ignore the possibility of
there being another power, one that is good and creative by nature (as opposed
to evil and destructive). And if such a power exists, it will of necessity
be at odds with the destroyer. It seems more likely that the damager-god is
an alias used by Satan than that Satan is an alias used by the damager-god.

				Steve Swope (aka scs@wucs.UUCP)

"Brigadier, A straight line may be the shortest path between
 two points, but it is by no means the most interesting!"