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Old 05-07-2008, 03:57 PM   #5 (permalink)
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It's always mostly on religious grounds. It astonishes me that some people who are incredibly intelligent could have such magical thinking. I hope that there is a god, I'm not an atheist. But it is people who need to take responsibility for their own lives and leave god for their personal inner experience.
How can you separate a belief in God from your behaviour and your decisions?

Why do you think God should be constrained to a "personal inner experience" like some sort of fantasy figure?

Or is this how you rationalise doing things which you know are against God's will?