Re: QUESTION FOR RELIGIONIST

Malcolm McLean said the following on 3/12/2008 12:57 PM:
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> "Seon Ferguson" <seongf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:47d7198e$0$19237$5a62ac22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I like how none of the religionists replying actually offer any 
>> evidence. Some even resort to childish name calling.
>>
> The challenge was for "objective, verifiable" evidence. The OP was very 
> picky about the sort of evidence he will accept.
> 
> Since gods cannot be observed directly, you have to observe what the god

> has done. And the main thing the Christian God did was to found the 
> Church. The Church is an objective social reality with a clergy, 
> membersm a headquarters and so forth. Statements about it can usually 
> also be verified. So we have a piece of objective, verifiable evidence. 
> Maybe not the best or the most convincing evidence, but evidence that 
> meets the criteria.
> 

Sorry, but the Church is not objective, verifiable evidence of God any 
more than the Church of Scientology is objective, verifiable evidence of 
Xenu, or the Heaven's Gate cult was objective, verifiable evidence of 
aliens.

The Church was created by man.



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