Re: QUESTION FOR RELIGIONISTS

"Christopher A. Lee" wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:39:27 +0100, "thomas p." <gudloos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Michael" <newsuser3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i en meddelelse
> >news:pan.2008.03.05.18.31.17.557496@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:54:42 +0000, BIll M wrote:
> >>
> >>> I challenge any religionist to supply "objective verifiable
evidence"
> >>> that
> >>> any God is real and exists outside of the imaginations of
religionists.
> >>
> >> I challenge any challenger of any religionist to supply something
that
> >> cannot be supplied; let's say prove the existence of sound that is
silent,
> >> or make a gold coin out of silver.  I already know that I have
carefully
> >> chosen my "straw man" so that you cannot comply; that is the purpose
of
> >> this exercise.
> >
> >What a very strange response.
>
> They can't give an honest response.
>
> If they can't "provide something that cannot be supplied" then they
> should keep their stupid yaps shut.
>
> They seem to be too stupid to realise these questions wouldn't even
> have been asked it they had the courtesy and common sense not to being
> their religion up where it is inappropriate.
>
> They might see nothing wrong with special pleading, inside their
> religion.
>
> But in the real world it is not exempt from real world methods and
> tools. Like logic, evidence etc.
>
> Of my two local model railroad clubs, I no longer go to the one where
> there is religious talk. The other one has it (and politics)
> explicitly banned in its rules; there is a reason for this, and the
> club even has a couple of ministers as members. We're there to talk
> and do model trains.

Trust that your trains are real; and you all don't go around the room
going
'poop poop'

smile

When I see an exceedingly solemn man, I know he is an exceedingly stupid
man. No
man of any humor ever founded a religion - never. Humor sees both sides.
While
reason is the holy light, humor carries the lantern, and the man with a
keen
sense of humor is preserved from the solemn stupidities of superstition.
[Robert Green Ingersoll]