From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!arens@UCBKIM
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: reasoning
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.217
Posted: Wed Apr  6 01:09:20 1983
Received: Thu Apr  7 01:17:57 1983

From: arens@UCBKIM (Yigal Arens)
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watmath!rtris and pur-ee!ecn-pa:scott should argue among themselves about
whether things are the way their god(s?) want(s) them to be or not.  That
should be fun.

I like the way these fellows decide whether something is their god's desire
according to what is most convenient at the moment, or what they believe in
anyway.  So what else is new?  Haven't you noticed that religious people of
all the various kind always seem to believe that their god tells them to do
what they chose to do anyway? 


	I do not believe, for instance, that God INTENDED the world to be
	this way. But now that man has messed things up, God is working
	his purposes through that, at great cost to himself.
	  (Says watmath!rtris)

Pretty weak god, eh?  Anyway, my point is valid even so.  Who's to guarantee
that man won't mess up in the next world?  Many pure souls will be
languishing in hell while god is working to make things right again.  Wanna
guess how long that might be?  He does have all eternity to do it, so
there's no need to hurry.  Boy, will they be disappointed.

Yigal Arens
UC Berkeley