Darren New wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> Well, would it be OK for me to say it's the work of Satan?
>>
>> Sure thing.  But Satan traditionally is an opposing force to 'God',
> 
> Only in *your* tradition. Loki, Bacchus, and Pan aren't opposing forces 
> to God. Well, maybe *your* God doesn't like them, but they aren't 
> opposing (as you mean it) to the other gods in their pantheon.

But Loki, Bacchus, and Pan aren't 'Satan'.  "Satan" is traditionally an 
opposing force to "God", though not all things referred to as "God" have 
an entity to oppose them which is called "Satan", and there are also 
entities known as gods which are assigned slightly less power than "God".

>> at the very least you've implicitly acknowledged *existence*.  XD
> 
> Nope. Only if the "God" you speak of is the God of the bible, at which 
> point you're not calling "what did what I don't understand" God. You're 
> afirmatively saying "because I don't understand something, the God of 
> the Bible exists and behaves the way described therein", which is 
> nonsensical.

Hrm...I dunno.  See previous paragraph by me.  I personally don't 
believe in the existence of a specific opposing entity known as Satan, 
merely that Satan is a metaphor/scapegoat to excuse the evil actions for 
which humans are individually and personally responsible.  To me, "God" 
is the sum total of reality which, when considered as a single thing, 
encompasses all consciousness and could embody more than what we 
currently think of as existing.  Basically, in containing all 
consciousness, the universe is itself conscious, though not necessarily 
in a way analogous to what we think of as conscious, and in some way 
that consciousness set up the laws of nature as they exist to allow for 
reality as we know it to occur.  I call that "God".  Does it have an 
active interest in human lives?  I have no way of knowing, but it is at 
least unnecessary whether or not does or not.

Is something that *does* have an active interest in human lives and 
can/does interact with them in any manner intentionally malevolent in 
the sense that we understand?  I think so, based on my personal 
experience.  Anything bad that happens is God's fault, as is anything 
good that might (theoretically) happen, since God *is* everything, and 
all activity is an integral part of God.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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