[Discuss] Re: "Atheism"

[Rick Cronan]

On 9/27/06, Paris <parislowenbruck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "See that fella got struck by lightning in the square?  Priest says it
> > was Oompah that did it.  Now I don't know whether or not I really
> > believe in Oompah, but there's obviously something up there that
> > didn't like the fella."
>
> Well, why not being a consequence or to have happened due to the appropriate
> circustances? A human being struck by lightning bolt is something that
> happens.

It was a bolt of magical white fire that leapt from the sky and killed
the guy stone dead.  That doesn't just happen!  What - other than a
god or a nature spirit - could possibly make lightning?  What would
you make it out of?

> Didn't sciences exist in medieval ages?

Not as we know them, no.

- rick


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