Davoud:
Chances are the "god person" would be cursing his god

Steve Paul:
If you believe that, then your experience with "god people" is either
extremely limited, or corrupted by posers. That person would not be a god
person by definition.

God people have two simple tenets to their faith, embrace the divine ideal
(and we all have an image of what that is in our minds), and respect (love)
your neighbor (take care of him, share in his burden, share in his
experience, do not leave him to feel alone.)

That is not true, and even if it were, having principles and living by
those principles are entirely different matters. I guarantee you that
among the principles Usama Bin Laden would quote you as being his own
are "embrace the divine ideal, respect (love) your neighbor, take care
of him, share in his burden, share in his experience, and do not leave
him to feel alone."

Whence this term "god person," anyway? Seems a bit clumsy, and I've
never heard it used by a theist. They tend to refer to themselves as
being religious, or being believers.

I know this to be true, because it is common among loving and caring people,
whether they are religious or not.

I'm not so sure about the "divine ideal" when it comes to Secular
Humanists. Our ideals tend to omit divinities and, as the name of our
philosophy implies, we focus on humanity.

Everyone else who claims to know God, is just a poser. Everything else a
corruption. If there is a God, a lot of religious people are likely to be
sorely dissappointed.

I have no idea what that means.

I can "feel" it. ;-)

You may deal with what you feel;
I may agree with what I see.

Davoud

--
I agree with everything that you have said and everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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