Fw: Fw: Mithras

Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:51:19 -0800 (00887424679, 2.2.32.19980213205119.006d0fcc@midwest.net) 

At 12:39 AM 2/13/98 -0500, Brian Dean wrote:

>> >BRIDEAN

>> >Well, it seems that any approach which allows the possibility of NOT 

>> >believing in Christianity is a negative approach to you, even if it is

only a 

>> >POSSIBILITY.  Tell me something,   Is the fact that Christianity is merely 

>> >a myth or legend a POSSIBILITY to you?   

>> 

>> RON

>> I don't accept that as a "fact", but I am open to the truth even if it 

>> is disagreeable. If God did not exist I would want to know it. However 

>> neither you nor any of your skeptical friends have offered a single 

>> reason to doubt the obvious fact that the universe exists and that the 

>> response of most of humanity throughout history has been to interpret 

>> this by intuiting a Creator. I simply lack the faith to believe that 

>> this is all just some collosal accident. 

>


TILL
The "response of most of humanity throughout history" has been to interpret
everything it didn't understand by "intuiting" gods.  Hence, ancient
societies had gods of rain, thunder, volcanoes, etc., etc., etc.  However,
it seems that the more humanity learned, the less need it saw for gods.
Finally, every mystery was resolved by postulating just one big god, but as
time wears on and discovery is piled onto discovery, humanity will probably
reach a point where it sees no need for even this one big fellow.

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net