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From: schwrtze@csd2.UUCP (Eric Schwartz group)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: God is Dead
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 11:54:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 11:54:00 1985
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God is dead. Like in: 'Tucson is dead on a Tuesday night'. God is boring.
Does it matter whether there is a god or not? Maybe in some abstract and
unemotional way. What's god done for you lately? What's god done for any-
one lately? Murders and wars and natural disasters keep causing human
misery. God doesn't do anything to stop it. In fact, if god exists and 
has the attributes normally attributed to him, then he must be causing all
this suffering and misery. In which case our life is a struggle with god.
But I prefer to think of my life as a string of connected physical exper-
iences that can be interpreted in their own right, without appeal to the
supernatural. That's all I can do. And think of suffering and misery as 
a condition that can be overcome through human, technological efforts. Who
needs god?

					Regards,
						Bill Light