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To: MineralMan
'. . . .I don't mind if others believe in deities. . .'

A curious way of putting it. I do wonder whether it has occured to you (and the other professed atheists on the thread) that monotheism as confessed by traditional Christians and Jews is not one god paganism, but the settled conviction that the ground of all being, the reason there is something instead of nothing, is more like a person than like anything else we have ordinary experience of, together with the desire to be in right relationship with that reality.

Certainly Jews and Christians differ on the nature and extent of the self-revelation of that which is beyond being. As an Orthodox Christian, I am convinced that the decisive self-revelation of that which is beyond being (and there is a reason--not sexism as feminists would have us think--that "He" is always used of God) is the person of Jesus, as well as many other things about God and our relationship to Him (some of which are admittedly abstruse seeming to those not trying to live as Orthodox Christians) which follow from the Church's experience of Him.

145 posted on 01/26/2005 11:11:41 AM PST by The_Reader_David
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To: The_Reader_David

That's fine. If you have reasons for your belief that satisfy you, then more power to you. I don't mind if you believe...not at all.

Everyone believes what they can. Some of us do not believe, and cannot. Your experience and education lead you in one direction. Mine leads me in another. And there it is. I won't interfere with your belief in any way. Please leave me to my unbelief.


159 posted on 01/26/2005 11:17:41 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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