BOTH ATHEISTS, CREATIONISTS HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG

On Jun 18, 3:13*pm, Ed Conrad wrote:

So both sides will get the shock of their lives to learn that there
are MANY Gods.

"Each is responsible for a section of the universe,"
David Fellin had revealed. "They're members of
a family of Gods who live in a physical body on a planet of their
own.

"They have the ability to travel as spirits and can go anywhere in the
universe in almost no time at all."

Fellin is one of the three anthracite miners who
were entombed more than 300 feet below the
surface following a cave-in near Hazleton, Pa., in August 1963.

Posting this a second time in a row is unfortunate. In any event,
simply because one person in one incident reports seeing a strange
vision, how does this make it reasonable to automatically conclude
that this must be the final, true answer to such an important
question?

People who will just believe anything someone tells them are a big
problem in today's world. Mohammed said that an angel came to him and
told him things. Because people believed him, the peaceful
Zoroastrians were driven out of Persia, the peaceful Buddhists were
driven out of Afghanistan, Christians were persecuted in Egypt and
Lebanon, and we have 9/11 and the Middle East conflict.

If, instead, anyone claiming he was visited by an angel was simply
taken to need his head examined, we wouldn't have had the emergence of
a religion that has encouraged its followers to think themselves
entitled to use force to obtain and enforce dominance and hegemony
over members of other faiths.

Nor would we have had, in Canada, the bloody uprising led by Louis
Riel, who also claimed to have been spoken to by an angel.

Of course, you may find the teachings of people like Edgar Cayce to be
more in line with what religion should be when it is positive, when it
is a profound meditation on the wonders of the Universe and of human
consciousness, and on questions of ethics - and orthodox Christianity
to be like the type of religious belief I decry, that which leads
people by their credulity to violent and fanatical acts.

But New Age type beliefs rely upon a lot of credulity as well, so
however warm and fuzzy they might be, they're part of the problem, not
the solution.

John Savard