From: stumper 

Syd wrote:
> On Mar 27, 4:05 pm, stumper  wrote:
>> Syd wrote:
>>> On Mar 26, 4:20 pm, stumper  wrote:
>>>> Syd wrote:
>>>>> On Mar 25, 6:00 pm, stumper  wrote:
>>>>>> Syd wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2:21 pm, stumper
 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
>>>>>>>> just like the universe.
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> ~Stumper
>>>>>>> No.
>>>>>>> PDW
>>>>>> You exist by definition.
>>>>>> How about me?
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> ~Stumper
>>>>> What about you?
>>>>> PDW
>>>> You need to do a paradigm shift first to understand.
>>> I other words, I need to believe to believe..
>>> No thank you.
>>>> God is better handled by social science
>>>> than by natural science.
>>>> My working hypothesis for this week is this:
>>>> God is a world government in exile.
>>> My working hypothesis for this week is:
>>> Your a nut case.
>>> PDW
>> Good for you.
>>
>> Let's make the paradigm shift a little easier.
>> If you think God does not exist
>> and there are many people who insist that God exists,
>> you might not be talking about the same thing.
>>
>> So you just say God as understood by you does not exist.
>> But you cannot say that God as understood by them does not exist.
>>
>> To do that, you need to agree with them.
>> Got it?
>> You need to agree with Christians about what God is.
>>
>> Sure, they say God is this, God is that,
>> and even insist that they mean it literally.
>> But they clearly are not talking about God
>> as understood by you, do they?
>>
>> So we need to talk about what God is
>> before we argue about whether God exists or not.
>>
>> What is God?
>>
>> --
>> ~Stumper
>
> A character from someone else's book.
>
> PDW
>


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

It does have a nice recursive ring to it, doesn't it?

--
~Stumper

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