Re: A VERY IM****TANT QUESTION

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On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:54:33 +0000, Justin Case wrote:

> Anything is possible.

Really?  Let's see you breathe vacuum for a couple hours.  Or grow a third
arm just by thinking about it.  Hmm, waiting.  Still waiting.

> It just may be there is no supreme being  or
> Buddha has the right view or none of them are correct..

Yes, all of those are possible.  Could be God or Ra or Odin or Coyote or
any of a thousand more... or a committee of several... or one (or more)
we've never even heard of... or none at all.

> anyone around to confirm what is or isn't..  The point being you are the
> one who is being intolerrant for condemning those who think differently
> than you as being fools.

We condemn as fools those who behave like fools, either by claiming things
exist without any valid sup****t for the claim, or adopting wholly
unfounded beliefs in superstitious nonsense.  Well, I say "either", but
there are more than two cases, these just happen to be the relevant ones.

Look at it this way: if I claimed Bubu of the Jungle wanted you to dance
****d through the streets every Saturday, covered in blue Jell-O and
singing dance tunes, and the only sup****t I could offer for this claim was
some dusty old book of dubious provenance and questionable clarity, would
*you* take it seriously?

No, you'd quite correctly point out there's no reason at all to take it
seriously and you'd probably also point out that to do so is silly, that I
would be a fool to do so.  And you'd be perfectly correct to say that.

Why, then, should we treat *your* books, *your* gods, *your* claims any
differently?