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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Re: Is General Goodness just a moral principle?
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 02:12:09 EDT
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> I'd be curious to know what it is God has to do before you believe.

Exist.

> Just curious.  Do you think that if you were alive when Jesus lived, you would
> have believed if you saw all the miracles and then the ressurection...or
> would you have needed more proof?

Yes, indeed.  Just as I would need proof when Uri Geller bends sppons, or when
a magician pulls a rabbit out of his hat.  ("This time fer sure!" :-)  The
fact that you weren't there and still just blithely believe says something about
what kind of scrutiny you subject your potential beliefs to.

> How about when the Red Sea was opened
> for the Israelites to pass through?  Would that have amazed you enough?

Did it amaze you when you were there?  Or are you perhaps not quite that old,
which would mean that you accept the accounts at face value?  Why don't
you equally accepts Grimm's Fairy Tales?  There's little need to go through
the rest of the examples.
-- 
Meanwhile, the Germans were engaging in their heavy cream experiments in
Finland, where the results kept coming out like Swiss cheese...
				Rich Rosen 	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr