Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: What God Wants Message-ID: <466@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 12:38:11 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.466 Posted: Wed Nov 14 12:38:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 07:55:01 EST References: <1376@pucc-h> <1731@nsc.UUCP> <> <2330@mcnc.UUCP> Organization: UW Primate Center Lines: 21 > >... One of the great joys of humanity is its diversity, and part > >of that diversity is that widely differing groups of people can all worship > >the same Being in ways uniquely theirs. > > I always figured that was part of the Plan. A Deity that truly loved all > people in their diversity (and who truly wanted love in return) would > understand that different people have different expectations of their > faiths, and would provide accordingly. No way is better or worse than > any other, and all measure the differences among us. Ultimately, they > bring us all to the same place. At the risk of sounding remarkably like Ken Nichols (which, I should say, hardly frightens me, though some seem to think it a fine derogation), the above paragraph boils down to this: any God that "really" loved us would let us do what we want. God should follow the rules *we* make up for *Him*. Rich Rosen, where are you when we need you, to point out wishful thinking? -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois