[MD] God is dead.

[Peter Corteen]

Hi Robert,

If for you 'God is love' then let's just talk about love and leave 'God' out
of it.
There is an obvious etymological connection: God - good, Devil - evil;
therefore God exists, what an elegant proof!
You said 'according to the bible...'; you shouldn't expect me to give
special bias to anything in that book.

You said 'Scientifically speaking, Quality suffers from the same problem God
does; neither can be measured'; I disagree, we are each of us individually
assessing quality all the time - that is what all life is. Trouble is that
my good is not necessarily the same as your good (one man's meat is another
man's poison). The moq I see as an attempt to try to say some things about
quality that we can all agree on and thereby create a moral framework that
can be used to help resolve complex issues.

I would never say that 'I believe in Quality' as you suggested, it is not
like some guiding light that I put faith in. I try to cut out faith in my
thinking when ever I can.

You also said 'Religion teaches biological constraint in order to realize
the benefits derived from collectivization.' Glad you admit that religion is
really a kind of social glue; however when groups begin to form exclusion
and prejudice begins.

You said 'If one understood, for instance, the harm that stealing did to the
victim, he would not steal'. I don't agree, it is much more complex than
that.

'the fear of God stood as a great warning to them' - oh dear.

' Just keep comin' Jesus
Your the best dressed
You look dandy in the sky but you don't scare me
Cause I got you here in my eye'

'God would exact payment for such evil and destroy the thief. Pragmatically
speaking, whichever method works is good.' - so much for the benevolent
'God'.

'Death is truly the great constrainer of us all.  My religion frees me from
that.' - you contradict yourself.

Peter