I think you are overlooking one of the prime reasons for the
establishment of organized religion from the earliest times.

Simply put; The need to establish a higher authority on which to hang
and enforce the rules for living in organized societies. The
establishment of which was far more efficiently done with a priestly
class as opposed to a standing army.

On 21 May 2004 02:40:23 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

Don't mean to be insulting, but you sound like you don't
know, and you really don't give a damn.


Wrong. I care, but I also see the problem as unsolvable. I'm sure not taking
anyone's word for it. And that's all god is, a belief passed on through
generations. Pretty much how Voodoo survived into modern times. Still, I can't
prove there's no god to my satisfaction, so the possibility exists however
remote. An Athiest is certain that there is no god which is in itself a type of
close minded faith as narrow as any other.

Agnostic - a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is
unknown and prob. unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing
in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god -open to
consideration, discussion and so on.

RB