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Posted by: Stray Mutt ( )
Date: June 14, 2012 10:15AM
God says man created God

In case you missed it, Morgan Freeman said he thinks humans created God.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/morgan-freeman-god-religion_n_1580521.html

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Posted by: JoD3:360 ( )
Date: June 14, 2012 11:18AM
There is a sure test with three easy questions:

Does this God hate all the same things you do?

Does this God give commandments according to your will?

Do you adamantly follow everything you tell it to say?

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Posted by: runtu ( )
Date: June 14, 2012 11:27AM
Re: God says man created God

I quite like this quote:

"The more perfect God becomes, the more imperfect becomes man. He projects the best he has onto God and thus impoverishes himself. Now God has all love, all wisdom, all justice—and man is deprived of these qualities. He is empty and poor. . . . It is the same mechanism that makes people endow the leaders of even the most inhuman systems with qualities of superwisdom and kindness."--Eric Fromm, "What Is Humanistic Religion"

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Posted by: Stray Mutt ( )
Date: June 14, 2012 12:01PM
When religious people claim it's impossible to be good without God...

...I'd like to reply that they always have been.

Yeah, it's sad that so many people don't give themselves credit for their own kindness, compassion, honor, sacrifice, love and such.

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Posted by: mrtranquility ( )
Date: June 14, 2012 12:52PM
Reminds me of a song.

"Dear God" by XTC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk41Gbjljfo

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Posted by: charles, buddhist punk ( )
Date: June 14, 2012 12:58PM
Re: Reminds me of a song.

And Joan Osborn's "What if God was One of Us?"

I remember being all offended yet drawn to the philosophical musing while yet TBM.

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Posted by: forbiddencokedrinker ( )
Date: June 14, 2012 01:03PM
Re: God says man created God

"Man created God in his image." That has a nice ring to it.

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