Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!unc!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: What should God be like? Message-ID: <641@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 19:30:38 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.641 Posted: Sun Feb 12 19:30:38 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:36:33 EST References: <291@bunkerb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 33 -- 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." -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 12 Feb 84 [23 Pluviose An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***