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Originally Posted by metis
Not likely according to Einstein and Spinoza, the both of whom were pantheists. If God made all, and if God knew exactly what He was doing, then God made us to do whatever we end up doing.
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That's one way to view it, but I have a somewhat contrarian view. I don't believe God judges us or is concerned with sin (non-existant beings so seldom do, you know). However, I am absolutely certain that there a great many humans out there perfectly willing to use the notion of a judging deity to keep the rest of us behaving the way they want.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Limitations of Toleration"
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