The Nature of this Conflict (Humans)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 00:58 (5421 days ago) @ George Jelliss

There seem to me to have been some weird responses in the last three posts!
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> DT says: "I don't see what is wrong with a 'watered-down' version of God." There is nothing wrong with it. That is my point.-Seems like we are closer in our thinking than you thought, George
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> Rabbi DT offers the notion of a "tough-love God" who expects the human race to rise above the challenges of every day life and asteroid strikes, and look after the Earth and its animals and plants. But this is litle more than "Nature" personified. I can see no point in "praying" to Nature; it has no effect. One can "worship" Nature in the sense of appreciating its grandeur and power, but would one want to worship its arbitrariness in dealing out death?-But I am not praying to Nature. I am connecting with a universal intelligence of which my mind is a part. It is a shame that you are not connected. I follow Humanist rules as well or better than you do as I live my life. I've read Matt's rebuke to you. Please remember that we each have a right to our own point of view. Normally, you are much more polite than this. Did our comments touch one of your 'defensive buttons'?-In regard to "nature...[arbitrarily] dealing out death", we would not be here except for continential subduction, as one of the many ways that Earth is ideal for us. Haiti is a very unfortunate event, but California lives over just as potentially severe a fault line, and they are prepared for it. Unfortunately, the Haitians have never developed their society to the point that they are prepared. Is that God's fault? Is it the First World's? It is a tough-love God's challenge to be adult in societal rules and development.