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From: pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Truth About God (response to L. Merletto?)
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 12:03:43 EDT
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	L. Merletto (drutx!lrm) wrote an article asking why atheists and
maltheists post to this newsgroup. I cannot speak for atheists, but allow
me to present the maltheist position. I certainly do believe in the
existence of God. In fact, I believe in the existence of the Christian
God, the God who wrote the words of the Bible. I believe that He is a
liar and a fraud. I believe that He has deceived people into believing
that He is good, when in actuality He is extremely evil. In this way,
He gains the glory of billions of people whorshiping Him, while continuing
to enjoy the pleasure of hurting and humiliating us. Christians build
from the assumption that their God exists and is good. I look at the
evidence and conclude just the opposite. Which of us is right? To me
it's clear that Christians believe that God is good only because they
want Him to be good, because they could not fathom Him being any other
way. My conclusion came from examining the content of the Bible in
detail, and from taking a good look at the world.

	It is a pity that you do not read the Usenet with an open mind,
prefering instead to hear only the positions of Christians and other
God whorshipers. God is certainly seeking to encourage this sort of
thinking, since it inhibits our learning about what He really is,
favoring the opinion He would like us to have of Him. The reason God
encourages faith so much is because faith means that you won't stop
to think about how evil God really is. I do hope that someday you
get the chance to see God for what He is, realizing that He is a
heinous evil pig monster out to abuse us all.

Be well,
-- 
Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories
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