Re: Concept of God: Pre-destination?
I agree with you. Art, literature, music, the great outdoors, all stir something intangible and on a purely personal level mean more to me than logic and science. But I do not need to invoke the supernatural or suspend disbelief. Nor do I insist that people who do not like Modigliani, de Bernieres or Mussorgski are somehow inferior and will be made to suffer for it, or hope for a world which only contains the things I approve of. I wouldn't expect special consideration on the grounds of my tastes in the arts.
My "obsession" derives from the attempts to make the Quran out to be a scientifically miraculous book of testable predictions or a basis for a workable, modern legal system (which it patently isn't).
As I have said before, religion is a matter of faith and belief. It needs to exist without proof, as a matter of the heart. It also needs to be a personal thing, not something imposed on society or individuals, both in acceptance and in the details.
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My "obsession" derives from the attempts to make the Quran out to be a scientifically miraculous book of testable predictions or a basis for a workable, modern legal system (which it patently isn't).
As I have said before, religion is a matter of faith and belief. It needs to exist without proof, as a matter of the heart. It also needs to be a personal thing, not something imposed on society or individuals, both in acceptance and in the details.
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