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The good news is that your resistance isn't going to stop the new world from coming according to God's timetable.
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So it is religious dogma. |
If you can't remember the definition of God that was given in the book (hint hint: the laws that govern our universe), I can't help you. |
Except the laws of nature don't have a timetable, nor do they give a shit about human undertakings such as bringing about new worlds.
You can't have it both ways. Either God is nature's laws -which don't feel, think, or plan- so ascribing human traits to them is meaningless rhetoric, or God is a guiding force with human-like cognitive processes and emotions. |
From a week ago. This speaks to Ang's point too.
Scientific discoveries do not rely on
Deus Ex Machina to work and Lessans uses it frequently.
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If he's right about his observations then that causes a conflict with an established "fact". I'm sorry this has caused such an upheaval (I had no idea there would be this much contention) but I maintain that Lessans was right. You are entitled to believe you want, and I'm entitled to believe what I want. Case closed.
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So you're back to it being a belief system.