Officially OT -> Re:My fiscal responcibility...

Chris F.A. Johnson c.f.a.johnson-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon May 24 02:47:12 UTC 2004


On Sun, 23 May 2004 cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

>> On Sat, 22 May 2004, Lloyd Budd wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 22-May-04, at 22:55, James Knott wrote:
>>>
>>> You say God it is just fiction .  Prove it ;-)
>>
>>      Why should one believe in god any more than the monster under the
>>      bed? Or the tooth fairy? ......
>
> Well, we _know_ those were characters fabricated to entertain children,
> just like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed
> Reindeer.

     And god was invented to entertain adults as well as children; that
     doesn't address the issue of why one should consider god any more
     real than other fictional characters.

> The only places where those get taken seriously is in terms of box
> office sales at the movies.
>
> In contrast, serious people have taken quite seriously the notions of
> "supreme beings."

      Why? What makes god any different?

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