From: stumper 

Attila < wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:05:05 -0400, stumper  in
> alt.abortion with message-id
>  wrote:
>
>> Attila < wrote:
>>> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:54:46 -0400, stumper
 in
>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:31:19 -0400, stumper
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>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> What if someone feels a lot better
>>>>>> every time she prays to God for a while?
>>>>> That does absolutely nothing to validate any god.  The
same result can
>>>>> be obtained by contemplating a rock.
>>>>>
>>>> You are only thinking in terms of natural science.
>>>> Not all Christians are fundamentalists.
>>> Irrelevant.
>>>
>>>> What does it mean to prove God's existence
>>>> in term of social science like sociology and linguistics?
>>> Nothing.
>>>
>>>> There, it would be absurd even to ask for such a proof.
>>> Those are behavioral explanations and not the real world.
>>>
>>>> Do you know how to prove whether 'power' exists
>>>> in terms of sociology?
>>> Irrelevant.
>>>
>>>> Do you know how to prove whether 'word' exists
>>>> in terms of linguistics?
>>> Irrelevant.
>>>
>>> Neither directly affects the real world as people insist a god does.
>>> Or do you contend a god exists only as a concept and not in reality?
>>>
>> You mean you are not affected by any secular power
>> which might not eve exist due to lack of proof?
>
> Lack of proof does not mean non-existence.  There is no current proof
> green bats live on the fourth planet of Jabbah but that doesn't mean
> they either are or are not there.
>
>
>> Do you pay taxes?
>
> Of course.
>
>> Now, what does it mean to say that
>> power exists in sociology?
>
> No, it means power in the form of law enforcement officers exists in
> our judicial system.
>

That's just a tiny part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_%28sociology%29
But that will do.

God exists in sociology
because people go to church to worship God.

It's that simple.

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~Stumper

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