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    Re: what is god to you?

    With only a shallow understanding, I think that belief in God can indeed be only superstition. I hate to be insulting, but if you carry a cross with just a vague idea that it will cause something...
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    Probably not. I have to give you credit. It’s hard enough when countrymen try to comprehend each other. I have been making effort, already, to give extra thought to reading your posts. I think...
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    Re: what is god to you?

    We must be careful not to over-generalize. Cultures have always had dissidents. I think that it is fair to say that some societies today permit more pluralism than any that existed in the past. ...
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    Re: what is god to you?

    I disagree. I don’t believe that our cultures have diverged so far from their origins that it is no longer possible to experience the world mystically. Some individuals, overly secure in popular...
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    Re: what is god to you?

    Naturally, I agree that the motives of the irrelgious are personal. My point is that the same is true of the religious. Believers don't all have too much in common, either. You don't have to...
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    Re: what is god to you?

    God is a word. The question of precisely what that word means, logically, should come before the question of whether or not it is true that whatever the word might refer to exists. Even if you...
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    Re: what is god to you?

    Is the question of whether there is a god or not the topic of this thread? I thought that it was about what the word means to each of us... and THAT is something to which the meaning of religion in...
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    Re: what is god to you?

    Very patronizing.
    In fact, people did not set aside religion because science developed; rather, science developed because people set aside religion.
    How to build technology and a stable...
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