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From: dlecoint@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Darius_Lecointe)
Subject: Re: What RIGHT ?
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 15:57:53 GMT
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joakimr@ifi.uio.no (Joakim Ruud) writes:
> 
> Recently, I've asked myself a rather interesting question: What RIGHT does
> god have on our lives (always assuming there is a god, of course...!) ??
> 
> In his infinite wisdom, he made it perfectly clear that if we don't live
> according to his rules, we will burn in hell. Well, with what RIGHT can god
> make that desicion? Let's say, for the sake of argument, that god creates every
> one of us (directly or indirectly, it doesn't matter.). What then happens, is
> that he first creates us, and then turns us lose. Well, I didn't ask to be
> created. 
> 
> Let's make an analogue. If a scientist creates a unique living creature (which
> has happened, it was even patented...!!!), does he then have the right to
> expect it to behave in a certain matter, or die...?
> 
> Who is god to impose its rules on us ? Who can tell if god is REALLY so
> righteous as god likes us to believe? Are all christians a flock of sheep,
> unable to do otherwise that follow the rest? 
> 
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
> 
> I just want to point out that this is not sarcasm, I mean it.
> 
> 		 	How should one deal with a man who is convinced that
> 		 	he is acting according to God's will, and who there-
>      Jokke		fore believes that he is doing you a favour by
> 		 	stabbing you in the back?
>  
> 							-Voltaire
> 
