Comments on: Catholic Left Attacks Cryptozoology

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:45:07 +0000

I wonder if anybody thought to make plaster casts of those “footprints in the sand” you hear mentioned on “inspirational” posters…

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:12:17 +0000

Where I said RUN above: maybe “micro-manage” would give a better feel for what I meant.

God as micro-manager? A little too much in our image and likeness, methinks.

I’d say, personally, that testing you, by handing you temptations you’ve been programmed by Him to fall for, then punishing you when you make the “wrong” choice, the one He programmed you to make, couldn’t be more micro. Doncha think? When the way God made us, most of us couldn’t even get 1400 on the SAT…?

OK, I’ll stop now. But I actually am starting to think of God as a cryptid! I’ll try to stay on topic; I think he’s outside of earthly verification.

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:59:48 +0000

Well, right.

We say that God created us in his image and likeness. Nothing else; just US. To me this implies that the opposite is really what’s going on: We’ve created a God that is in our own image and likeness, with all our faults. He judges, punishes, condemns — things we consider reprehensible in humans. Why are they OK with God?

Why are we so uncomfortable with a God who only creates, then leaves the creation to be? Isn’t it enough that God made it? Why does “He” (we even give him a gender!) have to RUN it, too?

My next essay: God, the Ultimate Cryptid…!

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:21:56 +0000

Amen, says the atheist. I’ve always found it interesting that those who go on about God so much seem to act as if the big guy couldn’t possibly get anything done without THEM. They talk a lot about Faith, but seem to have little of it themselves.

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:30:26 +0000

in “His” image.

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:29:54 +0000

Mnynames: I think you’re right.

And I think God could have done all of it.

My problem with religion is that it pigeonholes God, makes Him (other than a Him) some kind of neurotic martinet who doesn’t have bigger fish to fry than demanding we don’t eat those on Fridays.

In a recent debate in Time Magazine (Nov. 13 issue), the guy who comes off as the all-science atheist says, in closing, “if there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.”

Exactly. A god who made evolution, and saw that it was good. And who made everything — EVERYTHING –

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:46:42 +0000

As a devout atheist (If such words can be combined), one reason why I reject a theistic world view is because it seems so dull and simple by comparison to the wondrous, awe-inspiring universe that I perceive around me. To observe all these vast, interconnected systems, working seamlessly and almost imperceptibly over truly immense stretches of time and space is truly humbling. To consider that they all appear to function perfectly well without any form of outside intervention I find even more remarkable and worthy of reverence.

If God does exist as many religions describe it (No need to get sectarian here, most will suffice), then the appearance that the system works fine on its own is only an illusion. True, I may not believe in a supreme being, but I must believe that if one does exist, it is not a deceiver. If it is, if (for example) it put fossils in the Earth simply to deceive, to tempt those with the ability to reason away from the truth, then it is certainly no God I would wish to follow.

The more science discovers about the universe and how it functions, the more I find it to be far more miraculous, far more divine, far more worthy of awestruck reverence, than anything any religion has ever conceived.

By: cor2879

cor2879 — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:22:16 +0000

“I myself am a Christian and a libertarian. I find the people who snipe at cryptozoology seem to worship a deity who is as limited as their minds. God is far greater than we can comprehend, and the diversity of creation will surely reflect this. Just my thoughts on the matter.”

Well said and I agree wholeheartedly

By: BigJake

BigJake — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:41:24 +0000

If I was still doing radio, as I did back in Ufology’s Golden Age, I would ask the question now that I asked then when a noisy scoffer called in: Why are you afraid of this topic? The reply was generally incoherent babblings.

By: Raptorial

Raptorial — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:25:45 +0000

I agree with said Ughs and Arghs, and I add to these an Oy!