Re: If god exists, what created god?

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Jack Davis (ifjed@nmsua.nmsu.edu) wrote:
Replying to this (which I wrote):
> >As an interesting aside, with the advent of the digitised Bible, you
> >can now perform a "search and replace" on the Bible and make yourself
> >God. Then print out a bunch of copies and keep them in "nuclear
> >proof" containers, so that after the great nuclear holocaust,
> >survivors will find the texts and build new religions worshiping you.
> >There's a book about this... I think it's called _A Canticle For
> >Leibowitz_... author's name escapes me.

> I've often heard of this book, but I never knew what it was about. Great
> idea!

I should clarify:
The book is partly about a new church rising from the ashes of
nuclear holocaust and they worship a "Saint" by the name of Leibowitz
who was really one of the engineers who had a hand in creating the
bomb that caused the devastation. But they don't know this of course.
Oh yeah, and the author's name: Walter M. Miller Jr.

I guess what is relevant to the thread is that we create G(g)od(s).
This does not mean that there is no "supreme power", but I
might venture to suggest that it is awfully naive of we lowly humans
to believe that we know what "god" is.

Gregg

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