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OT: Rebelious reopening of locked topic 26-Aug-2010 At 1:17:25 PM gordoste

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I am really enjoying this topic. A couple of thoughts

1. I applaud dave h. for presenting an interesting perspective.

2. You cannot "tear down" Christianity with logic. Faith consists of believing something without proof, and anyway you cannot prove or disprove the existence of God. So don't waste your time. In some respects I envy those with faith as it seems to be very reassuring to them. However I simply do not have it. Perhaps one day some experience will inspire it in me. Currently the closest I've come is while experiencing natural beauty and perceiving elegant truths while studying number theory. Philosophers disagree on whether these experiences are artifacts of human consciousness or whether they are inherent to the universe/Creation. (i.e. Would an alien have a concept of "natural beauty" and would they have discovered Pythagoras' Theorem? And if the answers are yes, could God be the set of all abstract concepts which are shared by all consciousness?)

3. This is all a totally irrelevant to the original topic. The Bible disapproves of many types of people and we marry those people happily.