It's difficult to be serious about this topic, but I'll try. How about if I
were to say (which I will) that the idea god has no relevance to me.
That said, here's a prayer. Note the traditional imagery.
1
Chicken, turkey.
Defamation of birds.
Adding isult to ingestion.
Cowlike. Piggish. The blood of
the lambchop.
2
Cowsense, the notion of cud,
the goodness of all things, even,
or especially,
methane.
One fills the air with joyous song.
At 12:43 AM 3/9/2004 +0000, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>marking the sparrow's fall is more believable to me than primum mobile
>
>i bet the sparrow doesnt worry too much about primum mobile
>
>you're still defining your belief in terms of what you dont believe, which
>is odd
>
>depending upon your base line, yes, belief in god has declined - so what?
>people still believe all kinds of shit - how many ever believed believed?
>
>i hope we're not going to get the progress of history here
>
>L
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 09 March 2004 00:42
>Subject: Re: God & Religion
>
>
> >Depending upon your baseline, belief in a god has declined, dramatically.
> >And even among all but fundamentalists the areas accounted for by belief in
> >a god have become narrower and narrower. What Einstein was talking about
> >was a primum mobile--pretty narrow compared with "he marks the sparrow's
>fall."
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >At 11:24 AM 3/9/2004 +1100, Alison Croggon wrote:
> >>On 9/3/04 11:08 AM, "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> > I think that's a dodgy line of argument, belieiving in believing /
> >> > disbelieving scientists
> >>
> >>It depends on what you're arguing for - Mark claims that increasing
> >>explanations for things means that belief in God will logically decline.
> >>But I was saying that isn't necessarily the case at all, and pointing to
> >>Einstein as an example (I do believe that Einstein existed).
> >>
> >>For the record, I don't believe in God either. But I'm very interested in
> >>the question.
> >>
> >>Best
> >>
> >>A
> >>
> >>
> >>Alison Croggon
> >>
> >>Editor, Masthead
> >>http://www.masthead.net.au
> >>
> >>Home page
> >>http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >>
> >>Blog
> >>http://alisoncroggon.blogspot.com
> >
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