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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: non-evidence for the non-existence of non-god
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Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 19:07:33 EST
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Rich,

If God exists and God is logical then Jeff's position is  not illogical.

You place your faith in God, and, given that you are doing this properly
you could not have faith in anything illogical so you caould never be
inconsistent. This would be akin to Boole's and De Morgan's additions
to the syllogisms of Aristotle. 

However, if God does not exist then Jeff has had it. What he is
putting his faith in is not real, and therefore cannot be logical,
and therefore he must be putting his faith in his own desires and
whims. Intellectual suicide...

This is also the crux of my argument against Christianity. The God
portrayed in th Bible does not appear to be logical. Now, it may be
that the God is logical and that the Bible is full of inaccuracies.
It could even be that the Bible is logical and I fail to see it.
(however, I don't take that last one very seriously, because if
I doubt my ability to see inconsistencies in the Bible then I am
tantamount to doubting my own sanity.) It may be that God is logical
and Christianity is way off and it is only the Natives of Gamma
Epsilon 5 who really know the Truth about God. it may be that
placing you faith in God is an impossible act, and that anybody
who claims to do so is actually a serious victim of self-deception.

I don't know. In the meanwhile I am going to stick to the rules
of predicate logic and not worry about any new rules which I might
get if I placed my faith in God. I would rather work with an
incomplete set then a set which might destroy my very capacity
to be rational.
-- 
Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura

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