XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10kr4a1$29lli$2@dont-email.me>, x   wrote:   
   >On 1/21/26 04:56, Blueshirt wrote:   
   >> x wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 1/18/26 02:51, Blueshirt wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> God and the Devil are two sides of the same [made-up]   
   >>>> coin. So if you don't believe in one, you can't believe   
   >>>> in the other. Dave doesn't seem to be able to grasp   
   >>>> that one... despite having it pointed out to him many   
   >>>> times.   
   >>>   
   >>> The word 'diabolis' means 'to cast against'.   
   >>>   
   >>> The word 'God' and the word 'good' were the   
   >>> same word in Old English.   
   >>>   
   >>> Either way there is something called 'Summum   
   >>> Bonum' or 'Absolute Goodness' and 'Summum Malum'   
   >>> or 'Absolute Evil'.   
   >>   
   >> There's definitely goodness and badness. People can choose   
   >> to behave in a good way... or they can choose to behave badly.   
   >> But I doubt their badness is because they have been possessed   
   >> by a Devil. Humans have both traits in them, our free will   
   >> chooses which trait we expose to the world at any given time.   
   >>   
   >> People shouldn't need a [holy] book to tell them to be nice to   
   >> one another, or be possessed by a demonic spirit to do bad   
   >> things! For me, God and Satan are artificial constructs...   
   >> people behave how the choose to behave off of their own backs.   
   >   
   >Well you know evil is a parasitism of the good.  There is no   
   >evil that obtains power except through some other form of   
   >goodness.   
   >   
   >People in the present day are controlled by machines called   
   >'television sets and radios' that in a lot of ways the people   
   >worship as gods.  Show a lot of pretty pictures and portray   
   >a lot of sounds from these radio speakers and a lot of people   
   >think that they are 'automatically rational' because of it.   
   >   
   >Yet in a lot of ways these machines are much like the ancient   
   >Roman arena.  They exist in a lot of ways for entertainment, but   
   >in a lot of ways perhaps nothing in them is true.  There is also   
   >the question 'what is holy'?  As for books however there are   
   >documents called 'Constitutions' and 'laws' that are also   
   >types of words that can have different meanings.  These documents   
   >are artificial constructs.   
   >   
   >Dawkins came up with the term 'meme' and it is not obvious where   
   >'meme' ends and 'angel' or 'spirit' or 'mind' or 'idea' starts.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Parasitism.  Defines Atheism well.   
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