Vic
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Originally posted by: crownjules
Originally posted by: Vic
"Our Advanced Alien Species, who art in Deep Space, Hallowed be thy Very Large Array... "
Do you really need to fall back on appealing to emotions through the invocation of a familiar phrase? Or do you have a real arguement somewhere that might support the tinfoil hat theory?
I wasn't doing anything of the sort. I was simply mocking you for your insistence that 2 obviously identical things are somehow, in your opinion, radically different. Remember, we're not talking about alien life in general. We're talking about SETI, which means we're talking about Advanced Alien Species who have both the ability and the desire to communicate with humanity across that vastness of interstellar space. That first paragraph of yours above seemed to miss that crucial distinction.
Next, your definition of God falls under what is known as the transcendental belief, which is typical for Judeo-Chrisitianity but not necessarily other religions. The transcendental God (meaning that God transcends the existence of us mere mortals) came about because first, God lived in the volcano (or some other place inaccessable to humans, like the sea or lofty mountains, etc.), then he lived in the heavens, and then (in modern times) he lives outside of existence itself (a logical impossibility). Other religions have different views that do not require that God exist outside existence or be in opposition to the laws of nature (which by definition he would have created, right?). This comes in varying flavors from (believe it or not) Advanced Aliens Species to Sufism/Hinduism God who is the embodied reflection of the universe itself to "Einstein's God" who is the very universe itself. Etc.
Your third paragraph, however, was what I was really mocking in my variation of the Lord's Prayer there. Whee... they have sent messages too.