The King and all the heads of families did as they wished and did not mind wasting money on many luxuries without thinking of their people, they "sing solemn canticles of thanksgiving every morning, accompanied by five or six thousand musicians." ... People there believed there was no need for prisons or courts because they lived in a trance of continual gratitude. They thought that there was a god that looked after them and that there was nothing to worry about. ... Religion is seen as hypocrite where people pretended to be what more than they really were and blamed their religion for their p...

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So naturally, their religion would be the one they believed in because they are unaware of any other. ... Which carries with it greater social as well as religious benefits. ... It also emphasizes that one should not get attached to personal things in this world, as it will not help you achieve nirvana. ... The Jewish people feel that they were chosen by God by God's grace, and that it was an undeserved favor. ... They also believed that God gave instructions at Mt. ...

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Religion in his mind also is nothing more than our way of dealing with the feelings of helplessness, which carry on from childhood into adulthood. ... The possibility of such cultural regulations depends on the leaders, not to mention the great amount of coercion that is inevitable in carrying this plan out. ... While there are many people who would turn away from murder, they do not deny themselves the satisfaction it would bring, and if they could get away without being punished for it, they would most likely take that offer. ... To people life would be intolerable if they did not attach ...

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"Outlining his initial version of the cosmological argument, Plato points out in Laws that things in the universe move or change.... Beauty for example is transferable because things may resemble beauty in different ways. ... With correspondence to the religion at the time, Socrates acknowledged that moral goodness cannot be the command of the gods as they squabbled, disputed, and stole wives from each other. ... 'The Forms could never be encountered in this world, since they are permanent and unchangeable concepts- justice, truth, beauty and goodness- of which Plato believed we have...

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This conclusion is further supported in Lodahl's discussion of omnipresence ("God being fully and 'intimately present - - - in every place' ") and omniscience ("God knowing thoroughly and intimately all things and events in utter clarity and unimaginable thoroughness" (GNG, 122)). ... As God has created worlds distinct from the divine essence, this means that God is not the totality of everything, that there are created things which are other than God. ...

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