Re: Selling Points of the Major Religions

On May 12, 5:23=A0pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 12:34:29 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus



> >Curiously, Kurt Godel, the famous mathematician and logician -- you
> >know, the uncertainty and undefinability theorems?-- actually did
> >write a proof of the existence of God.
>
> If he did, he was wrong. There can be no such proof. There is certainly
> no evidence to sup****t any gods.
>
> >He defined God as the
> >coexistence of all possible states of being.  Most intelligent
> >religious people, however, would say that their concept of God
> >transcends all logic.  Purely undefinable.  Possibly, by definition.
>
> Yes, if you define God as nothing, then you can prove that God has
> absolutely the same impact on the world as nothing.

Saying God is undefinable is not the same as saying God is nothing.
It is simply saying that we don't understand everything.  Atheists
seem to think that they do.  That is where we disagree.  Athesists are
precisely as ignorant as the rest of us.  They just are frightened of
acknowledging that fact.