18 Dec 95 20:56 GMT 18 Dec 95 20:48 GMT (router,WinSmtp -Win32- V1.07beta1.3.s(unregistered)); Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:50:38 (158.152.94.213::mail daemon,WinSmtp -Win32- V1.07beta1.3.s); Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:50:14 From: mark To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: Fw: God and atrocities] Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 12:18:04 -0000 In reference to Rodney Coates et al, on God and his tolerance for evil. The obviously flawed statement is 'God exists'. If it is accepted that = God does exist then it is pointless trying to apply logic - Euocentric = or Afrocentric - to anything that then follows. I'm not really sure of the motivation for trying to find an internal = logic to any mystical belief systems, since they are able to accomodate = all sorts of contradictions precisely because they are mystical. Most = Christians I have ever met will simply say that something is the way it = is because God wishes it. Of course the preponderence of relativism these days will mean that my = comments are met with the reply - who am I to say that my belief system = is any more rational than that of the Pope's? My reply is that the views = I hold can be tested against reality, a reality that puts human beings = and their freedom at the centre. Everything can ultimately be explained = without needing to introduce some superior being, and anything that = cannot yet be explained is a result of our immature science. I look forward to any comments contributors may have ...