The notion of God

Nov 25, 2003 21:22

Was reading 'Buddhism' by Karen Armstrong and came across this passage on page 105 ( Read more... )

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anonymous December 23 2003, 23:01:37 UTC
That "limited God" would I suppose, be the personal God that Einstein is referring to.

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p.s. I chanced here via fonsus, whom I reached via jin_n_juice. So it's really no point finding out who I am.

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raekk December 24 2003, 10:23:14 UTC
Yes, absolutely.

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ningz February 9 2004, 11:30:04 UTC
i find that a tautologous question. people worship whatever that being they think is god. and i don't think in all Christian fairness that we should judge if some Christian's 'god' is the limited god anyway. so if they say no, we've got no room to doubt. if they say yes, they are consciously worshipping a non-christian god.

so, it's a hugely interesting question. it loses its meaning once the question is answered, and so it ceases to be a question. the response made then, cannot be an answer because there is no correlative question in the first place. :o)

paradoxically, the question shouldn't be answered then, just because it's a good question indeed. :)

nyway, hope you're doing okay. take care

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Re: raekk February 23 2004, 04:19:40 UTC
Am doing fine, if somewhat occupied by the renovation / unpacking. The question is meant to ask us if we are justifying our hopes/desires/prejudices by projecting them onto a god entity. Church leaders have used precisely this to justify racism, anti-semetism etc.

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