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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey)
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Subject: Re: God is Dead
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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

Well spoken, Bruce!  Couldn't have summed it up better myself.
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr