re: #151 Lynn B.

People who have no faith and lack respect for those who do (i.e., you) tend to denigrate other people’s faith by assigning it a straw man facile basis, i.e., the need for an explanation of things they don’t understand.

This is not, however, how people of faith tend to think of God, i.e., as a crutch or an explanation. This may or may not be news to you.

/that’s my best shot … take it or leave it.

That’s much better, mainly because it’s completely different from your original statement. The two don’t even resemble eachother.

Anyway, it’s still wrong. Plenty of people DO use god as a crutch. If you don’t realize this, you haven’t spoken to any creationists. Or any Fundamentalist Muslims. Or Orthodox Jews. Or Native Americans. Or Africans. In point of fact, you’d have to be completely ignorant of numerous forms of mythology in order to make such claims. Read some Greek Legends some time. Or, hell, read the Bible! People have been using God as an explanation for natural phenomenon since they were first able to fathom the idea of a supernatural being - and we continue to do it today. How can you possibly deny such a self-evident fact?