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To: jlogajan
What are you talking about? "Property claims" have no meaning when ability to defend same is unequal. What I am interested in is a God being who creates sentient beings upon whom he routinely lays misfortune and torture -- apparently for his own viewing pleasure. We generally refer to these types as sadists -- even if some people wish to build religions around them.

Sentience and self-awareness is a matter of degree; and on the Great Scale of Being, God is considerably above us -- moreso than we are above, say, Bambi. Should the Human hunting of Animals, for enjoyment, be outlawed -- even on Private Property?

70 posted on 08/05/2002 9:42:09 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Sentience and self-awareness is a matter of degree

That is an assumption not in evidence. Are you saying an person of IQ 180 has some greater moral authority than a person of IQ 120?

If no, then your linear scale is disproven and you have to seriously reconsider your belief system that God can torture whomsoever he pleases because of "property rights."

80 posted on 08/06/2002 6:42:54 AM PDT by jlogajan
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