Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpm!cher From: cher@ihlpm.UUCP (cherepov) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Wicked God - what else is new? Message-ID: <477@ihlpm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 10:21:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpm.477 Posted: Thu Sep 12 10:21:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 04:19:56 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 There's been big a big upheaval after Paul Zimmerman spoke on his Damager-God concept. I do not understand all the excitement since the idea is at least as old as that of well-intentioned gods. All I can contribute is a couple of kinda funny quotations (all from memory): From "Fanny and Alexander": - If there is God, he must be a piece of shit. Alexander character - If there is a good God in heaven, he must be a puny one, sort of a heavenly Jew among heavenly Nazis.. Herman Broder(sp?) character out of a Bashevis Singer book. -Oh, God! -No, oh Zahod! Exchange between President and Zahod (Superman II) Mike Cherepov Lordie, lordie, lordie...