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Do you believe in God?

Do you believe in God? What will happen to you at death? Do you pray? Do you think religious believers are deluded?

 

Many people would hesitate to raise these questions at dinner. Antonio Monda, on the other hand, has been posing them for several years to cultural eminences like Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Daniel Libeskind, Derek Walcott, Spike Lee, Jonathan Franzen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese. …

 

Mr. Bellow was one of the five interviewees who answered yes to what Mr. Monda calls the “fundamental question”: whether one believes God exists. Six answered no. Seven placed themselves somewhere in between.

 

These are all people smart enough to know that defining God is not a simple matter. The in-betweens were especially apt to speak of mystery. Some, like Mr. Franzen, used language leaning in the God direction:

 

“God’s not like some chief executive sitting at a control panel, calling all the shots,” he said. “At the same time, I think there’s a reality beneath what we can see with our eyes and experience with our senses. There’s ultimately something mysterious and un-materialistic about the world. Something large and awe-inspiring and eternal and unknowable.”

 

Spike Lee spoke of “a superior being” and a “superior presence”— “but I don’t know if I can call it God.”

 

Others, like Mr. Rushdie and Ms. Paley, were very definite that the “mystery” they affirmed was in no way transcendent or supernatural. When Mr. Englander, whose prize-winning short stories reflect rebellion against an Orthodox Jewish upbringing, was asked whether he believed in God, he answered, “I’d be inclined to say no if I didn’t fear God’s wrath.” …

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/us/10beliefs.html

 

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November 22, 2009 5:28 PM
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RE: Do you believe in God?

Originally written by Nanna Mercer on November 22, 2009 12:24 PM

 

Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future, as some physicists say?

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6879293.ece

".. like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather"
 

It is obvious that such a time traveler cannot exist because he could never come into existence (although I like the Terminator series, too )

 


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November 23, 2009 4:08 AM
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RE: Do you believe in God?

In the name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful

Please let me say that I wonder a great deal at how peolple actually think about the existance of the Creator Himself when they actually have the greatest living proof in the Holy Quran , which is now with the aid of science and computing is very plain for every one to see , and to see an example of what I mean please visit this page on the Web:

http://www.bens7.webs.com

And because of the sincerity of the prophet (PBUH) this concludes that  there is only one creator Allah the almighty and Prophet Mohammed may peace and blessings be upon him is His Messenger.


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November 23, 2009 5:26 AM
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RE: Do you believe in God?

An interesting debate in the U.S. Senate on which name represents a nonsectarian, universal deity: http://www.slate.com/id/2236157/

David Hamilton, Barack Obama's first judicial nominee .... , has seen his confirmation stalled until last week in the U.S. Senate, in part because his opponents claim he's a judicial activist for an opinion he wrote about God's proper secular title. In a 2005 case, Hinrichs v. Bosma, Hamilton determined that those who pray in the Indiana House of Representatives "should refrain from using Christ's name or title or any other denominational appeal," and that such prayer must hereinafter be "nonsectarian."

Bosma questioned the practice of opening state legislative sessions with sectarian Christian prayers that included a prayer for worldwide conversion to Christianity. Hamilton found this to be a violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause because it was government speech that favored one religious sect over another. In a post-­judgment order, Hamilton also wrote that the "Arabic word 'Allah' is used for 'God' in Arabic translations of Jewish and Christian scriptures" and that 'Allah' was closer to "the Spanish Dios, the German Gott, the French Dieu, the Swedish Gud, the Greek Theos, the Hebrew Elohim, the Italian Dio, or any other language's terms in addressing the God who is the focus of the non-­sectarian prayers" than Jesus Christ. Hamilton, himself a Christian, also added that "if and when the prayer practices in the Indiana House of Representatives ever seem to be advancing Islam, an appropriate party can bring the problem to the attention of this or another court."

For these words of clarification, Hamilton has been pilloried for months as a judge determined to chase Christians out of the public square in order to make more space for Muslims. In an interview last spring with Christianity Today, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Hamilton had ruled that "saying the words Jesus Christ in a prayer is a sign of inappropriate behavior, but saying Allah would be OK." That's factually true but hopelessly misleading....

 


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November 23, 2009 8:32 AM
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RE: Do you believe in God?

Originally written by Jacek K. on November 23, 2009 1:26 PM

Hamilton had ruled that "saying the words Jesus Christ in a prayer is a sign of inappropriate behavior, but saying Allah would be OK." That's factually true but hopelessly misleading....
Also because you would have to put Mohammed on the same blacklist as Jesus Christ, so allowing "Allah" for "God" would not help much.

Originally written by khaled ben gharbya on November 23, 2009 12:08 PM

http://www.bens7.webs.com

In my eyes this is only a proof what skillfull writers can achieve (and for which they can still earn wondrous word rates today)...

You might also want to watch the video Number 23:





[Edited by Harry Bornemann on November 23, 2009 8:55 AM]

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