Denis Loubet wrote:

"AcesLucky" <acesLucky@netscape.net> wrote in message
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This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be interesting
(to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

The extent to which coincidence looks like cruel humor.

Excellent! So far your answer makes the most sense without an apparent
bias! And subtly instructive.

I'm going to keep this one (hope you don't mind).

AcesLucky <acesLucky@netscape.net> wrote in
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This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be
interesting (to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support
of a god?

AcesLucky

What would be your best argument is "support" of Santa Clause or a
unicorn?

AcesLucky <acesLucky@netscape.net> wrote in
news:YwqYg.3799$ef2.201@fed1read09:

This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be
interesting (to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

So . . . when "so many people believed" the sun went around the Earth,
it did? When "so many people believed" the Earth was flat, it was?
When "so many people believed" God spoke to prophets, telling them to
rape, pillage, murder, enslave, that such behavior was {and still is)
good and right?

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support
of a god?

Nothing. There can be no evidence for a god that cannot be explaind by
lies, deception (including unintentional self-deception), or ignorance.

AcesLucky ha escrito:

This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be interesting
(to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support of
a god?

AcesLucky

I cannot imagine any argument as a prove of the existence of god.

To believe in a god is the result of an slavement of the mind. Any
atheist can end believing in god if held in captivity and conditioned
appropiately. Remember the so called Stockolm syndrome. Anyone can
end believing any sort of crap in certain conditions.
Leopoldo

AcesLucky schreef:

This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be interesting
(to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support of
a god?

AcesLucky

The one used by the few semi-religious people I know basically amounts
to:
"Believeing in a supreme being or a force behind everything makes me
feel good and gives me peace of mind"


Ofcourse you could state that that's a bogus argument and it has no
logical ground to stand on, but this is what keeps the superstitious
and sort of religious friends of mine stick to what they believe
despite all counterarguments. One could argue that it would be a decent
argument for a god because it supposedly does have an effect (at least
for those that believe it).


Kilmir
#1944

AcesLucky schreef:

This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be interesting
(to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support of
a god?

AcesLucky

The one used by the few semi-religious people I know basically amounts
to:
"Believeing in a supreme being or a force behind everything makes me
feel good and gives me peace of mind"

Ofcourse you could state that that's a bogus argument and it has no
logical ground to stand on, but this is what keeps the superstitious
and sort of religious friends of mine stick to what they believe
despite all counterarguments. One could argue that it would be a decent
argument for a god because it supposedly does have an effect (at least
for those that believe it).


Kilmir
#1944

AcesLucky wrote:

This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be interesting
(to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support of
a god?

"Our eyes see the world through a narrow slit in the electromagnetic
spectrum. Visible light is a chink of brightness in the vast dark
spectrum, from radio waves at the long end to gamma rays at the short
end." - Richard Dawkins

Our assumptions could very well be a narrow slit. What we think is a
'reasonable' universe is constrained by the limitations of human
reasoning. How can we know what is really out there or what should be
out there? The human mind is forlornly underequipped to cope with
ranges of reason outside the narrow range of the experientially
familiar. Maybe reason itself is a human construct. Perhaps things
exist that defy logic and human understanding.

It would be to my benefit to have the above torn apart - help
yourselves. :-)

AcesLucky

AcesLucky wrote:

This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be interesting
(to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support of
a god?

Now there's a conundrum. Asking atheists to argue in favor of the
existence of something they don't believe exists. So what's your best
argument in support of the existence of leprechauns?

Uncle Vic

What would be your best argument "against" the existence of a god?

AcesLucky wrote:

This is an honest question to which an honest reply would be interesting
(to me).

What would be your best argument in "support" of a god?

(As an aside, Marilyn vos Savant [who claims not to answer publicly on
questions of religion or god but did venture this one] answered by
stating, "because so many people believe in one.")

Without being dishonest, what would be your best argument in support of
a god?

Ok I'll bite. Honestly the closest I come is that I some times I miss
the belonging that came from being in an organized religion and
sometime is a little envious at the closeness and bonding of some of my
theistic friends. Admittedly this may be thought of as more an
argument in support of believing in god than an argument in support of
god, but its as close as I come. As for an arguments in support of god
I can't say their is any one that I would consider strong or less wrong
than the others, which seems to be the consensus of the atheist in
attendance.

Now to test the honesty on our theistic brethren and in the spirit of
"do unto others, as you would have them do unto you", I ask all you
theist:

What would be your best argument "against" the existence of a god?

MemePilot
"Believing is seeing"