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Sunday February 05, 2006 01:30

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"..religion is the politics of the mentally deficient.."

The recent religious furore over certain (cartoon) publications in the secular press unambiguously identifies ‘religion’ as little more than cheap politics; or put in simpler more accurate terms; religion is the politics of the mentally deficient. Consider the possibility of an infinite creator/God and the arrogance of those who actually think or imagine they or any other finite being could possibly pollute, insult or deface that God. A characteristic of Godhead is IMMUTABILITY! Rationalists would refer to the basic logic of the inability of the finite to apprehend the infinite (God); the two states are mutually exclusive. But it is obvious that ‘God’ is as far removed from the present issue as day is from night.

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Comments (9 of 9)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	finger lickin burned	pat c	Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:02
2	Opus Dei Fury At Mockery Of Catholicism	pat c	Wed Feb 15, 2006 14:42
3	Opus Dei and the RC church "our auld enemies"	:-) galileo	Wed Feb 15, 2006 14:46
4	galileo	pat c	Wed Feb 15, 2006 14:56
5	I wanted to give him pride of place in a "sunday papers" I didn't publish yet "House Arrest"	:-)	Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:19
6	Pat C	Big Joe	Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:41
7	joe	pat c	Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:45
8	Pat C	Big Joe	Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:59
9	big joe	pat c	Wed Feb 15, 2006 16:04

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