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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Is Santa Claus God?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.160320.15361@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <1992Dec23.174006.5982@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:03:20 GMT
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- El-Habbash Ahmed (ahmed@cs.tcd.ie) wrote:
- : npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan) writes:
- :
- : >There was an article in "Free Inquiry" about a woman who strongly
- : >believed it was wrong to tell your children about Santa Claus.
- : >First of all, you're lying to them and what is more devastating
- : >to a child than to find that their own parents are liars. Secondly,
- : >it gives precedence to believing in patently impossible things.
- :
- : This is absolutely right
- :
- : >Maybe it paves the way to believing in other impossible things
- : >later in life -- like God, fer instance.
- :
- : Isn't this a lie to say that God is impossible thing ?
-
- No (see below)
-
- : All these things within ourselves and around us do not tell that there
- : is a possibility of a creator !!!???
- :
-
- Anything that is not physically impossible is, IMNSHO, possible; even logically
- inconsistent ideas like an Omnicient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniloving god
- who is vengeful "down to the third and fourth generation", provides for eternal
- torment, commands genocide and never manifests to those of us who need
- empirical evidence (I think this is what the Catholics mean by "the mystery of
- faith).
-
- I do ascribe a vanishingly small probability to the existence of such a being,
- but hey, Schizophrenia is not impossible.
-
- Obviously, Nancy is not as open minded as I am. She expects logical
- consistency in the ideas she accepts. Difference is the spice of life.
-
- :
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- Mike McAngus | As if I needed Another time consuming hobby.
- (mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org) |
- The Truth is still the Truth | This Post exploits illiterates.
- Even if you choose to ignore it. |
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