Re: THE PROBLEM WITH ADAM?

monkfish wrote:
> 
> bob young wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > monkfish wrote:
> >>
> >> bob young wrote:
> >>
> >> > monkfish wrote:
> >> >> Bill M wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Gods are all the creations of man's imagination. They were
created
> >> >> > to overcome man's panic
> >> >> > fear of the finalty of death and the end of their lives.
> >> >>
> >> >> That appears to be a quite broad generalization.
> >> >> Do you have any evidence to support it?
> >> >
> >> > What do you need evidence for?  You grovel to a god that you
> >> > have never seen or heard from, that you only know about from
> >> > what other humans told you.  So you do not need any evidence
> >> > for anything.
> >>
> >> You are sadly mistaken.
> >> I am audacious enough to define God in my own terms.
> >
> > Of course you are, safe in the knowledge that your god was
> > created by man for just that kind of purpose.
> 
> Safe in the knowledge that
> God will have mercy on my soul
> and give me faith to understand Him better
> sooner or later.

Man himself makes up his gods
and then manipulates them
to his heart's content.

Sad isn't it

> --
> monkfish   * alt.atheism is removed from the header because trying to
prove
> the existence of God is prohibited by their undebatable policy.
> ** Atheists have blind faith in their ability to know of all actual or
> possible modes of existence. Such hubris cannot be good for science.