Re: Get religion


"JC" <dontbother@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JC wrote:
Want to find out if there is a God or not? Just put together a 5 day
camping trip out into the middle of nowhere. Get out there and just take
in everything around you. It'll change your life. When you see all the
creatures and all the plants and all the stars at night and how it all
interacts it's pretty hard to convince yourself that all that is just
random happenings.


We can not prove God, but we can observe the creation of a wonderful
power around us: The rising of the moon, the setting of the sun, the
movement of the spinning world. The winter constellation of Orion in the
Northern winter sky is there as it always has been throughout my
lifetime. The glory of Venus that becomes the morning or evening star
never ceases to thrill me.
Birth and death of all things amazes me and yet there is the ongoing
progression of the generations that is orderly and measurable.
Each one of us will only have been here for a very brief time, but long
enough to realize that we were not entirely random nor unnecessary in the
ongoing evolution of life on this planet.
Lorna

When you're out in the wilderness all by yourself you can see things
happening and you can ask yourself, how did that happen. And the longer
you sit there and ponder it, the more convinced you become that there is
some higher power at work. One thing that always amazed me was when I
would be sitting on the bank of a lake or creek and see a bluegill in the
water just under the surface at a standstill. A mosquito hawk would land
behind it in a location that there was no way the fish could see it. After
a minute or two the fish would swoop around 180 degrees and swallow the
mosquito hawk. Now how did that fish know that bug was where it was? Same
with birds. They do some of the most inexplicable things one could
imagine. There has to be a higher power controlling all of this.

Makes me wonder if the mosquito hawk is an atheist.

JP





I guess the thing that convinces me most is the new idea. When a new idea
comes into your consciousness, and you've never had any connection to it
what-so-ever, such as hearing it on the radio, or seeing it on TV or
things like that, where did it come from? Was it just floating around in
the air? Well, how did you grab it?


--
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

http://www.reason.com/

JC



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