A matter of perpective to Rick G.

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[rev grgaud]
SJANE, I think you've indentified the problem: where Terry's
religion
is concerned, he doesn't want to think, he simply wants to
believe.
My take on this is that if he were to actually think about his
beliefs, he might just loose them and he's afraid of that. I know
that
feeling, it was that way for me when I was a Fundie.

TERRY
My dear friend Rick, I always find your comments interesting
Rick, whether
I agree with them or not.  One of them was this  "Sometimes I
wish it
wasn't that way and I still wish the Atheist was wrong. However,
I will not be dishonest and lie to myself! The evidence I see
doesn't support my wish. "

Its all a matter of perspective, I simply see the evidence in a
different
way then you do.


[rev grgaud]
There's a big difference, Terry, between wishing things weren't
what they are and ignoring the evidence. I did that for too long.
Yes, sometimes I wish that, as an  Atheist, I was wrong. Yes,
sometimes I still wish there was a benevolant god who would take
care of me and give me a pelasnat afterlife; but wishing for
something to be so doesn't make it so, especially when the
evidence is against it. My wishes are one thing, reality is quite
another. I wish Santa Claus were true. Think of all the money I'd
be saving come Xmas. ;-)


Reverend G.R. Gaudreau
grgaud@bigfoot.com

And the LORD said unto Linus Thorvalds,
"Thou shalt go unto Pharaoh Bill Gates,
and lifting thy middle finger, thou shalt say
unto him: `LET MY PEOPLE GO!'"

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