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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
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Subject: Personnal Testaments as Proofs
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 16:48:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 16:48:54 1984
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/***** uokvax:net.flame / pucc-h!aeq /  3:11 pm  Mar 16, 1984 */
2.  The reason I continue to believe in God is that there is evidence that He
    does exist.  He has changed me vastly.  In the years I have been a
    Christian, I have been enabled (via prayer, the ultimate psychotherapy,
    and via the ministry of other people) to become much more fully human than
    I was, say, 10 years ago.

The reasons for your personnal (in)sanity cannot be attributed as
proof for the (non)existance of god.  By your arguements, there is not
a god, for though I do not believe in a god nor do I belong to a
church, I have grown in spirit and in the philosophies that I believe
in.  I am a much more responsible person than I was a year ago, five
years ago, and ten years ago, and yet this has nothing to do with god.
Your psychological state is not an indication of the existance of
mythical supreme beings.

In fact, it has nothing to do with the existance of god or not.  The
only thing thast I might argue is that it is a proof that your god
does not eixst, for how can any being that is wholly good create the
pain, sorrow, and suffering (and other non-goods) that afflict this
world.  It couldn't come from good.  Therefor, your god could not have
created this world.  And therefor, you're foolin' yourself.



                                          Walt Pesch
                                      AT&T Technologies
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