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to: Attila
from: stumper
date: 2007-03-28 00:11:28
subject: A new working hypothesis.

From: stumper 

Attila < wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:42:12 -0400, stumper  in
> alt.abortion with message-id
>  wrote:
>
>> Attila < wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:56:01 -0400, stumper
 in
>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:46:11 -0400, stumper
 in
>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:47:08 -0400, stumper
 in
>>>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:21:14 -0400,
stumper 
in
>>>>>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>>>>>
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:07:55
-0400, stumper 
in
>>>>>>>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>>>>>>>
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> stumper 
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> God does not have
to have any physical characteristics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That's probably
what it means when they say "God is a spirit."
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am always
entertained when people make assertions about the
nature
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of a supposedly
infinite being that they've never seen.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> God is everything there
ever was, is, and will be.
>>>>>>>>>>> Prove any god is anything.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Or even exists.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Does such God exist?
>>>>>>>>>>>> Is it even meaningful to ask
>>>>>>>>>>>> whether such God exists or not?
>>>>>>>>>>> It is always meaningful to ask
if anything exists.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> God exists by definition
>>>>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> just like the universe.
>>>>>>>>> Still wrong.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How many modes of existence are you
willing to accept?
>>>>>>> One.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> That must be your head.
>>>>>> How about numbers?
>>>>>> How about ideas?
>>>>>> How about money?
>>>>>> How about your government?
>>>>> All irrelevant as far as the subject is concerned.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you heard of the kingdom of God?
>>>>> Prove any god exists.
>>>>>
>>>> What makes you think
>>>> you get to dictate
>>>> how God should exist?
>>> Existence is existence, and if something actually exists there should
>>> be proof of that existence.
>>>
>>>> How God should exist?
>>>>
>>>> Like a chair?
>>>> Like an animal?
>>>> Like a star?
>>>> Like a cloud?
>>> Yes.  And there is proof for all of those things.
>>>
>> What are clouds?
>> Can you count them?
>
> Irrelevant.  The subject is not clouds.
>
>> How about these modes of existence.
>>
>> Like a number.
>> Like a melody.
>> Like a word.
>> Like a language.
>> Like a memory.
>> Like my mind.
>> Like my self.
>> Like a society.
>> Like your government.
>>
>> Are they all same or different?
>
> Irrelevant.
>
> The only subject is your failure to prove any god exists.
>

It all depends on what God is, wouldn't you say?

A new working hypothesis:
  God is a society of Christian faiths.

Have you ever seen more than one Christians?

--
~Stumper

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