In these times, we no longer pray to make the sun come up, for rain (except facetiously). We pray now for “that” job, “that” boy/girl friend, someone who’s ill, money. The generally-accepted deities are a couple of thousand years old, and they had nothing to say about cell phone etiquette. I don’t think queues had even been invented, much less standing-in-line courtesy. We need someone a little more up-to-date. And we need to decide if it’s okay to pray for a big-screen TV, or if that would be asking too much.
So if we were building a deity today, what would he be like? Would we have to do ritual dances or chants for results? I think we know better than to make “sacrifices” of living beings. With our new commandments and these things clarified, all we need is a ‘messenger.’ Maybe it would be better if he or she were not divine…Traditionally, there’d be a ‘miraculous’ birth story; maybe a baby doctors thought could not be saved, but an angel appeared or something? What do you think?
WHAT THE HELL? * * * * * * * RATIONALITY VS SCIENCE &RELIGION * * * * * * * CAN ANY USEFUL SENSE BE FOUND, BETWEEN MEMES, BRAMES AND AN INFINITY OF DIMENSIONS AND UNIVERSES ON THE ONE SIDE AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION, SNAKE-HANDLERS AND MESSIAH-ON-A-POTATO-CHIP ON THE OTHER? A RATIONALIST'S POINT OF VIEW...
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Humorous. Interesting. You know what, I think a lot like you. But the only different I guess I share with you is that I do not call my self an atheist. Though being a rationalist I am not a Believer, either.
I suggest you read the upcoming post on my blog which I am planning on writing now. It will be published either on coming Sunday or the Sunday after it. I am going to explain in more detail what God is.
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