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Skriven 2006-09-21 13:49:00 av Robert E Starr JR (9220.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: OT: child communion,
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On 20 Sep 2006 07:27:44 -0700, "Bill" <beastmachinery@msn.com> wrote:

>Methuselah Jones wrote:
>> Well, what I couldn't buy into was a Deity that would punish Its
>> creations for not doing what It wanted. If a program I create doesn't do
>> what I want, I fix it.
>>
>
>Peter David has an interesting and maybe accurate take on that: God is
>a four year old.
>
>The interview is (I think) in a Wizard Special Edition concerning the
>Heroes Reborn/Heroes Return events from a couple of years back. David's
>reasoning for the heroes being shunted into a parallel universe was
>that Reed Richards' four year old son Franklin created the whole
>universe and popped the heroes into it and brought them back later.
>
>But think about it. Doesn't a highly immature "deity" account for God's
>silences when asked legitimate questions (most of Job), or his "love me
>or be destroyed" attitude (the flood in Genesis, "I am the Lord they
>God, thou shalt have no other gods before me" in Exodus)?
>
>Finally IMO, the political shenanigans that run churches and synagogues
>nearly everywhere would only appeal to the immature mind. But that's
>another rant ;)
>
>Bill (who is a happy agnostic)
>

This might be the best place to insert this:

From Bill Moyers' _Moyers on America_  c2004 p. 54

Why must the innocent suffer, and what does this mean for faith?  One
of our participants in the ["Genesis" PBS] series told of the Jews
condemned to die in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Day after day
they were marched into the gas chambers  But one day the survivors
decided they'd had enough.  They decided that God must be tried for
having left all this horror happen  They convened a tribunal.  They
heard all the evidence.  They passed their judgement. They pronounced
God guilty and sentenced God to die.  No sooner was the judgement
rendered than one old rabbi got up and said, "All right, the trial is
over  It's time for the evening prayer."  At the heart of deep faith
is an old contradiction: "I believe.  Help thou my unbelief."

LK
                                                                               
                
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