"mob-barley" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> -L. wrote:
>
> > No loss for me.
>
> you're probably right Lyn
>
> > First of all, I don't think "God" - if there is such an entity - is a
> > male - IT is probably genderless and sexless as IT isn't human. Second
> > of all I 'm not sure "god" exists so how could anyone hate something
> > they aren't sure exists?
>
> we've been over this when I had to slap another mouthpiece down
> you want proof?
> going outside and seeing a leaf fall to the ground

The first strong suspicion I had that there was a supreme being/greater plan
"oversoul"
(according to Emerson hee) was in biology class. All those very specific
functions for
all those organs, sophisticated mechanisms and processes by which life is
manifest,
basic stuff like photosynthesis and the metamorphosis of butterflies.

The proof came when my prayers were answered not once but over and over
again.
(You can argue all you want that this could be chance--but I knows what I
know, and
have never been the type to embrace cynical Pascal's wager.)

But you cannot argue matters of faith. I mean, you can, but it's pointless.

And God knows it is bad form to condescend to the faithless.

All that said, I believe religious belief is a private matter, between an
individual, God, Bob, or the Great Abyss. I have heard that there are
passages
in the Bible that instruct the faithful to spread the word, but over the
centuries
religion has been so corrupted with politics and power I think missionary
movements serve human purposes more than divine more often than not.