Subject: Re: Music, religion, etc.
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 19:19:01 EST
In a message dated 1/14/00 4:09:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
sid-vicious@mindspring.com writes:
> >"God put it there" is only simple to you, Jim, because you were
> >raised to believe in God and live in a culture that supports that
> >belief. Robbie (I think) made a good point in saying that believing
> >in an all-supreme being that existed before existence and created
> >something out of nothing is not a simple solution at all unless it is
> >already part of your world view.
>
> "God put it there" is not perhaps simple in matters of acceptance, but if
> accepted to be true then it is quite simple. Why do bad things happen to
> good people? Because God works in mysterious ways. It's a very simple
> answer, if accepted. It requires no deep thought, and there is no room for
> fear or disillusionment because it is simply God's will. I don't think Jim
> was saying that "God put it there" is easy to accept, but that it is a very
> simple answer, a lot simpler than any scientific reasoning which would
> involve some knowledge of physics and an acceptance of being entirely in
> control of your own life. Unless God created physics, which complicates
the
> matter to no end.
>
>
> (I also apologize because I have not read my mailbox in a few days, and I
> fear as I go down and down the unread messages list a response very much
> like mine will have already appeared and been discussed)
One thing I was going to say in response to Elizabeth's post is that the
difficulities she was positing had to do with a specific concept of God. The
Aristotelian God avoids the specific problems she mentioned, in fact.
But I think the people that brought up Occam's razor as an argument against
the existence of God eventually abandoned it.
Jim
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