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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: What should God be like?
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Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 19:30:38 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 12 19:30:38 1984
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The question is not "What should God be like?" but "What should
God HAVE BEEN like?".  Any God with an ounce of gentlemanliness
in his body would have gotten things started (with a few elements,
a soupcon of energy, and a dash of physical laws) AND GOTTEN THE HELL
OUT OF THE WAY.  Indeed, it should have been, and still be, a lot
of fun just to sit back and watch.

This "O Lord I grovel before thee" business is curiously self-defeating:
As a chicken is just an egg's way of making another egg, surely
man-as-worshipper could only be God's way of making another
God.  (It sure worked, didn't it?  There's hundreds already.)
And yet that's just what *ALL* religious zealots, regardless of sect,
believe that he *DOESN'T* want.  Actually, it's more reasonable for
man to be merely part of a star's way to make another star.  A rather
small part.

Since no god worth his or her salt ought to be bothered by what I think
of him or her, if indeed he or she is still around, the question of
what God should be like is moot.  It's an interesting universe he or
she set up--I do marvel at it and try to understand it, AND, UNLIKE
YOU PIE-IN-THE-SKY BIBLE-THUMPERS, TRY TO MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE WHEN
I LEAVE IT THAN WHEN I CAME IN, but I doubt that even that much is
expected of me.  So if I'm called before St. Peter, or his logical
equivalent for you fundamentalists, I'll hold my head (or what's left
of it) high and say, "I tried, Sir.  No excuse, Sir."
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