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## PH#004 ÄÍðZhit Axis Nation presentsðÍÄ W () W ##
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## Why is There Religion?? \||/ ##
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## Written by: Guido Sanchez _/ \_ ##
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## Dated: June 18, 1991 ##
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## Greet(s) to: Kimo, Baron, White Lightning and ZANists!!! ##
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## Ying Yang BBS The Baron's Bistro FuNHouseBBS ##
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## ZAN Promised Land ZAN Mosque#001 ZAN Mosque#002 ##
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## SysOp: CoP SysOp: The Baron SysOp: Erasmus ##
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ThisClaimer: This is for educational, destructional, and anarchical
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purposes...If anything happens to you, I AM responsible... but
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remember I KNOW where you LIVE!!! You can distribute this in any way
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(ZIP, by hand), but DO NOT EDIT THIS file!! If you happen to pull out
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your EDIT prog and work on this, PLEASE leave the opening screen, and
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add your additions at the end of the file...
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]--------------------------------------------------------------------[
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Why There is Religion?
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A Theology Paper
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by
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Guido Sanchez
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Now, I know I've said some harsh things about religion in the past
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but now I'm going to look on the brighter side of it, mainly WHY DOES
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IT EXIST? I'm trying to be positive and keep in mind that all reading
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this may not be atheists like myself. Well, this file is FOR atheists,
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so I warn you all again with any respect for religion to STOP READING
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this phile and ERASE it! Thanks, and now on with the phile!!!
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Some Preliminary Stuff
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Special Thanks to the Baron whom I quoted here. Extra Special
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Thanx and congratulations to those two cats I am now hearing outside
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copulating. And remember, this is written from the point of view of an
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atheist, and I am trying to be open-minded about this. Ok, now onto
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the good stuff.
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What is an Atheist?
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Well, I am an atheist. In my book, anyone who thinks religion is
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silly and does not believe in a god is an atheist. Baron was right.
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Atheists must not "preach" their ideas, but I see ZAN as a way to get
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in touch with other atheists who question religion and exchange ideas.
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Now, this MAY seem like preaching, but it really isn't. An atheist is
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usually a clear logical thinker. The reason I am an atheist is that my
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parents allowed me to chose my own religion. I am grateful to them for
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that, for that allowed me to research other religions (as explained in
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FAITH.ZAN) and decide why they existed.
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Why do they exist?
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In general, religion is for people who do not want to live their
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lives. They are not curious enough to find out why something happens.
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Most atheists will logically find out why something happens (which is
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why most computer people are atheists). Religions these days are more
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like social clubs then actual religions. But lets not dwell on these
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simple-minded western religions. What about the Eastern and more
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serious ones??
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GOD: The ULTIMATE SysOp
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Ok, this is for all atheists, and it's a "pretend" game that I
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once tried myself. This will help you understand religion better, I
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think. Just for the sake of argument, say that you wake up one
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morning, and you KNOW that there is a God. Ok??? Don't argue with it
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just listen. Now ask yourself why God created you?? I had trouble with
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this part, but here is a clever analogy. "God" is the "SysOp" of the
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great UNIX system we call the universe. Now, you are a "new user" onto
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this system. The SysOp doesn't want any Leeches, right? Well, in your
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"validation letter" that God considers to let you in on, you have to
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explain why you should be admitted, and what you have to offer the
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system, and BLaH BLaH BLaH. Well, since you aren't even created yet,
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God doesn't receive this user letter from you. He lets you on anyway.
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Why?? His giving you access is akin to his giving you life, or
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creating you. Well, since he obviously doesn't think you're a leech,
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he expects something from you. But What? You might ask. Certainly not
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Postings, Uploads, Activity, etc. What does God want?? Well, since
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God's chat hours are undeclared, and he's rarely (never) in. So what's
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the best way to find out what he wants??? Ask the other more
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experienced users, who may or may not know. Well, as it turns out,
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they DON'T know, but they and some other old users have founded a
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religion (ZAN??) to discover what he wants, and how to accomplish what
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he wants, thus receiving HIGHER ACCESS (death and heaven). Now, this
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is where the BBS analogy stops. God wants something from you, and the
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only way you may be able to find out is to join a religion. So, a
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religion may POSSIBLY be a way to sate a mass curiosity, thus
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nullifying my earlier statement about religious people having no
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curiosity. Wierd, huh? Well, that's religion for you.
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On With the Pretending!!!
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Well, now in your pretend beliefs, lets say you have to choose a
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religion. Well, how would you go about doing that? Well, I'd ask each
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one of them how they think they'll be able to find out what God wants.
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Well, 99 percent of them (at least) will say "by praying to God". Well
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now you know that the only way to find out is to pray. Well, why does
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praying do it? Well, if you asked this to any religion's head person
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(father, monk, monsignor (sp?), etc.) they would begin to tell you the
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story of (religion's prophet goes here). Well, if you searched through
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every religion, you would find that the stories of the main prophets
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of any two given religions are basically the same. Well, let's say you
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spent the rest of your life praying and finally, a day before you die,
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you find out what God wants. You realize that God wants you to live a
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happy and prosperous life. And then you die. Well, religion didn't
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help you to gain that insight, so you could have fulfilled God's goals
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without belonging to a Religion and not even knowing that you were
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doing it. Well, all Atheists are fulfilling God's goals by living a
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long, happy, and prosperous life. Think about THAT!!!
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As it turns out...
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Religion, if I clearly understand it, is a waste of time. It makes
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no difference whatsoever if you belong to one or if you're an atheist
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or if you're an agnostic. You are still fulfilling God's will, and the
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only way you can't fulfill it is to kill yourself, which will probably
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only bring you to hell if you died unhappily. Well, so now after this
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little pretend session is over, I think you may be able to understand
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why so many schmucks are herded into churchs like cattle every Sabbath
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day. They are too damn eager to find out their purpose in life, and
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they're afraid of what they might find, and they figure that there's
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safety in numbers. While the Atheist has no reason to believe in God,
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and may be curious about why he or she (I wrote that in to acknowledge
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that there ARE female atheists such as White Lightning) exists, the
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average Atheist either may not care why he or she is here, or may
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decide to pursue the meaning of life in ways that only involve his or
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herself and a great quantity of Monty Python movies. You will find
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that most of the time, an Atheist will not openly admit that he or she
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is curious about their existance. Well, such is the way with genius.
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Secretive, yet spectacular is also coincidentaly the way of the
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Atheist.
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Well, That's basically All
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That I have to say, except for some closing comments. To all
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Atheists: Thanx for reading the phile and I hope that you gained some
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insight into the minds of the poor religious fools. To Agnostics:
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You're probably right about there being something "out there" that
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created us. The only difference between you and myself is that you
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think that some type of God is the reason we are here, while I tend
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to think of our existance as a fluke of fate (does that make sense?).
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I look to philosophy of man to prove that we exist whil you look to a
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being greater than yourself. To all religious people: SHAME ON YOU FOR
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READING THIS!!! I told you to erase this phile!!! Heheheh.
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Well, that's about it and I hope you all enjoyed this exotic
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journey into human thoughts. Untill Next time...
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Live Long and Die a Horrible Venereal Disease,
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Guido Sanchez
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MoPZAN
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EoLAAAAA
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Your exalted Minister of Philosophy bids you farewell....FUCK YOU!!!
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(c)ZAN 1991
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The text phile is over now. You can stop reading this.
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