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From: rlh@cvl.UUCP (Ralph L. Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: What?
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 10:39:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 10:39:10 1985
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> Consider the following statements:
>
> A.  God created men in his own image.
> B.  Ubizmo created men in his own image.
> C.  Men created God in own image.
> D.  Men created Ubizmo in his own image.
>
> Which statement is 'true'?  You may believe that the first statement
> is the correct one.  (Rich will probably disagree, claiming that the
> second statement is the correct one).  I cannot 'prove' that 
> statements A or B are false.  yet, statements A and B seem to mutually 
> contradict each other, whereas statements C and D are not inconsistent 
> with each other.  My rationalization is that statements C and D are
> more likely to describe the situation.

A => ~B
B => ~A
Therefore C & D ????

Run that by me again.

> The above discussion is an oversimplification of *my* thought process,

I hope so!

> but it may give you an idea how non-religious person judges issues of faith.

Maybe some non-religious people.  If there really are such people.
Everyone has a religion of some kind.  Even Rich Rosen has a religion
of sorts.  If he dosn't, why does he spend his entire waking life
posting to the net?  That is, if he realy exists.  I remain unconvinced.  I
think it more likely that his rather voluminous postings are the work
of an entire materialist society posting under a common pen name.  Or
perhaps he is a supernatural being (Ubizmo?)  who has gotton onto the
net somehow.  Ubizmo loves us so naturaly he wants to decieve us, right?
:-)

				Ralph Hartley
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