...made, made and made up by humans. Not necessarily to deceive but as...least our 'spirit' or our 'soul') are immortal and will exist forever, ...huge variety of religions. Any evolving human society develops beliefs about life and...to introduce/assume a supernatural and 'immaterial' being capable of and actively acting..., and power politics are superstrong human and societal forces (for injustice, ...

...miss them) say that the process of self realization is a path of elimination. Finding out what you are not, and you have done a great job of that. It is easy to write off the point of religion,... to dogmatists, and likely been surprised that even the more intellectually advanced ones (in a general sense) are not even in the same book as you , let alone, on the same page. Part of the 'worship...

... else below follows. So did you end up Islamic, or what?Or is the problem with that and Judaism up next in your narrative? You see 2 lines as a "narrative"? wow! : The original narrative :-) The "original narrative" was not mine, i simply replied to it ...... HTH :) Like most things, even usenet is far from perfect. <vbg>

... governance. Um, how about they are all pretty much the same and cut from the same cloth. Therefore their adherents pretty well operate from the same psychology -- but that's a generality. I'm not interested in gettinginto details, or judgements. It's just imho, and that's it. Make your choices. But I still hold to my previous response. :) THX OK fine with me .

"Sean" <here@now.com.au> wrote in message news:48d337f1$0$4454$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... "Carl Sagan's billions" <mm2terra@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:186e4a7a-253f-4aca-bcd7-1baf248774a8@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... When I was younger I struggled very hard and for several years trying to understand Christianity, Well, that was your first mistake. :) ...

"Carl Sagan's billions" <mm2terra@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:186e4a7a-253f-4aca-bcd7-1baf248774a8@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... When I was younger I struggled very hard and for several years trying to understand Christianity, Well, that was your first mistake. :) From that, everything else below follows.

...www.atheists.org/Atheism/mind.html Humans routinely attribute intentions, beliefs, and desires...org/wiki/Dualism_%%28philosophy_of_mind%%29 The soul, according to many religious and ...as explained below) considered to be immortal and to pre-exist their ... fellow humans. I'm not a believer in "the soul" as a... often asked how something totally immaterial can affect something totally material....

... views relating to God, Nature, soul, spirit, phantasmagoria- the illusory world ... Vedas contain some additional knowledge not available in other scriptures like,... being directly from the immortal human soul. Only empirical knowledge based ... individual. This results into various human beings ascribing different attributes to...of the body. When the immaterial “real self” and the gross...

... views relating to God, Nature, soul, spirit, phantasmagoria- the illusory world of ..., Vedas contain some additional knowledge not available in other scriptures like, ..., being directly from the immortal human soul. Only empirical knowledge based on... individual. This results into various human beings ascribing different attributes to ... of the body. When the immaterial “real self” and the gross ...

... the second resurrection of the soul in heaven? The resurrection of ... subsists in the immaterial realm of the spirit, not the flesh.... bewitched you, but Jesus was not raised to life spiritually, because ... caused it to put on immortality. 1 Peter 3:18: "For ... flesh.  His flesh, btw, was not human flesh, but angelic flesh,...