XPost: or.politics   
   From: firstnamelastinitial@peaksky.com   
      
   In article , dhomuth1   
   @comcast.net (Don Homuth) says...   
   > On 13 Dec 2006 15:49:14 -0800, "lein"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >You just had to ask us to pray, didn't you.   
   >   
   > He asked.  He didn't Have to ask.   
   >   
   > >Now Don's gonna wonder why   
   > >people pray for a break in the weather.   
   >   
   > Because they think The Lowered might grant such a break.   
   >   
   > But The Lowered is the One whose Mighty Hand caused the snowstorms in   
   > the first place, which are the instant problem.   
   >   
   > The Lowered gets the credit if the weather breaks, but is not held   
   > accountable if it doesn't.  Afterwards, folks will donate to their   
   > church at this season.   
   >   
   > This god-bidniss works out just fine.   
   >   
   > Why folks take it seriously is odd, though.   
      
   The god thing is pretty resistant to proof one way or another, but I   
   have the human thing pretty well figured out.  It seems that the   
   persistence of human consciousness depends on a normally functioning   
   human brain.  They didn't know this when they made up the religion   
   thing, so they thought breathing (spirit) had something to do with it.   
   Nowadays we have pretty much determined that when the brain quits, so do   
   you.  Nothing spoils the old squash quite so thoroughly as when it start   
   so rot.  There is no afterlife, and you don't go to live in the sky   
   (heaven).   
      
   You get one chance at life, and this is it.  If people want to spend   
   that life praying, it's their business.  Maybe it will make them feel   
   better.   
      
      
      
      
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