not God who is, but your religion's idea of a man-God.

Submitted by trans-parere (Canada), May 7, 2008 at 20:15

In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus with years of study and planetary observation still had to defeat the early Christian thesis of Lactantius, De Opificio Dei. Which the catholic Church held as part of their thinking that the sun revolved around the earth. To convince the Church Copernicus had to defeat the assertions of Lactantius with science.

It took 1,210 years to defeat a baseless assumption perpetuated in the name of God and religion.

In 2008, 465 years after Copernicus, we still must defeat the assertions of religions and of religionist. You with your assumed right to evangelise non-Christians, and Moslems with their assumed right to convert non-Moslem's.

Those of us in truth who know God as a personal God and not as a religion must live in a world of hate, oppression, false Gods, a false sense of cultural superiority, and warfare thanks to you people who must bring the non-believer to your cultural identity.

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