What are your thoughts on god? Part 3

POSTED BY: christhecynic
UPDATED: Sunday, January 22, 2006 06:51
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So what if god is a human construct from a primitive time? So is mathematics.

A great man once said:

“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of god.”
-- Cicero.

Cicero was a brilliant man, and he understood the existence of god, probably as well as anyone can, when he wrote about it in his three volume work, De Natura Deorum,(trans: the nature of the gods).

“For we have ideas of [[]god[]] implanted, or rather innate, within us, and as that upon which the nature of all men is agreed must needs be true, their* existence must be acknowledged.”
-- Cicero, De Natura Deorum, Book I.

*god’s

Men who can look upon a universe far larger and stranger then any man will ever comprehend and then state that no god exists, do not do so because they are rational, but rather because they are arrogant. It is vanity, I believe, that leads people to deny the existence of god. We can no more look upon the universe today and claim to know anymore about how it came into existence then those people in a “primitive time.”

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Oh, he's so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.
-- Ruby

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