On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:06:15 -0600, Harry F. Leopold wrote:

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:41:09 -0600, Bonfire of the Deities...' wrote
(in article <p8ivf.70592$7p5.6877@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>):

<jrsp8s@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:i6bvf.49526$q%.32197@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...

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The only way to see God's existence with your eyes open is with the
assistance of an opiate or a narcotic.

Indeed. And what's more, we should all stop and ask ourselves what kind of
deluded wing-nut someone has to be in order to stand there and blandly
assert that 'science has nothing to say on the question of the existence
of
God': fact is, the Judaeo-Christian 'god', like every other, has had its
imaginary ***** whipped so many times that it has gradually -- and rather
recently! -- been forced to change into something that is so conveniently
and charmingly 'metaphysical' that it now *can't be tested for*. Prior to
this vital re-definition, of course, their 'God' was very physically and
very decisively *all over the place*: he would smite, speak, shout, burn,
knock down, blow over, part, raise up, appear, disappear, command, make
ill,
make well, kill, resurrect, turn to salt, and even show his 'rear parts'
--
yes, the very same buttocks that, if they ever went so far as to actually
fucking *exist*, would be smarting from the protracted smacking that
science
has given them. And under the impact of this multi-dimensional scientific
onslaught on ancient stupidity -- the 'War on Error', as we ought to call
it -- there soon came to be *nothing left*: the 'God' these people still
love to speak of is nowadays *utterly unconnected* with the terrible
figure
feared by the ancients. He's now nothing but a milk-sop, pantywaist idol;
a
god that *can't ever do anything*; an *impotent, non-interventionist
phantom* -- who, though he is grandly supposed to have first 'created' our
entire universe (something which, incidentally, the 'Bible' doesn't
actually
claim), and then to have spent century upon century controlling it and
interfering in it on a daily basis, now can't be held actually to *do* or
*be* anything that has *any empirically detectable aspect whatsoever*!!
What
kind of fucking come-down is *that*...?!? He 'really, really, really,
exists', oh yes; and he's 'really, really, really great and all-powerful'
--
but the moment these credulous fools actually risk claiming that he's
*doing
anything specific in the world*, they're sunk -- because the unavoidable
empirical traces of such 'doing' will be *completely and crushingly
absent*...

To those of us who live in the real world, science actually has *this* to
say 'on the question of the existence of God':
"Look, every time we search in a place you say your 'god' is, for signs
that
you say we'll find of the things that you say your 'god' has done, all we
discover is that you idiots have suddenly changed the definition again to
prevent it being 'a problem' that we didn't bloody find anything. You're
*wasting our time*: you have a 'god' without actions; a 'god' without
qualities' -- a 'god' who isn't even fucking *there*..."

Bonf.

Seconds?

In absolutely no respect whatsoever, in the entire realm of possibility,
could I have put that better myself.

Seconded!