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From: stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Re: Shove over and make room for God!
Message-ID: <194@BMS-AT.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 22:15:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  8 22:15:34 1986
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Summary: A true existentialist

In article <3566@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU>, za56@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU (Brian McNeill) writes:

> This is because many people have always felt insecure without final
> meaning to their life.  . . .
> . . .           People have invented religion to give their lives
> meaning, to assuage their fear of death.

Finally we have a statement from a consistent atheist.  There is just no
way to poke holes in a position that denies real meaning.  This
outlook is even Biblical!  In the book Ecclesiastes, the teacher 
concludes after extensive observation costing his nation billions 
of equivalent dollars that either

a)	God does not exist and everything is meaningless.

b)	God does exist and it is best to seek Him early in life.

Actually, Pascal's argument can be used here:  If life is meaningless,
why not obey God just in case it isn't?  Because, man, there are things
I wanna do [ "...created for good works..."], pleasures I haven't
experienced [ "...at thy right hand are pleasures forevermore..."],
I wanna be free [ "...if the Son shall set you free, you shall be
free indeed..."].  I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket 
[ "...no man can serve two masters..."]; I want to be my own boss
[ "...a slave to sin (entropy)..."]!  Besides, I don't want to look stupid
[ "...the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God..."] . . . etc.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!{vrdxhq|dgis}!BMS-AT!stuart>