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yet you embrace an analogy with a simple creature on earth to describe it? Surely such an impossibly complex concept shouldn't even have a remote analogue among simple animals on earth, should it?
these are all human-created ideas, as I'm sure we agree - don't exist in the highest infinite and eternal reality, to which we have the smallest of clues
Actually since we wouldn't have the "smallest of clues" about this "highest infinite and eternal reality", isn't it just as likely they COULD exist?
"god" continues to be an idea that won't go away
So does pedophilia. And rape. And war. We (at least some humans in every era) appear to be hard-wired for all of those as well.
I believe learning to live with the contradictions in various theologies is absolutely essential to a peaceful planet.
I do too - but I don't think that insisting the contradictions aren't really there is the way to go.
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