> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> The Fool wrote:
> > 
> >> *Most* religious fanatics are not rational. But some religious
> >> fanatics are rational, and most religious people are rational
> >
> > If some were rational, those some could be talked out
> > of having idiotic religious beliefs.
> >
> Because the idiotic part of most religious beliefs ** is
> a matter of opinion, and does not contradict any experiment **.
> 
> It's idiotic just because you begin with the
> axiom that "if God existed, he would act the way
> I would act, if I were omni*.*".

No he [the god of the bible] would act the way he portrayed as acting. 
But that contradicts what is written in said book.

> >> _You_ think you know what God thinks. Why God
> >> didn't write the cure for cancer in the Bible, instead of those
> >> rules of how a son of Levi should dress in certain ceremonies?
> >
> > I have high standards.  God (this one anyway), does not
> >  meet those standards.  The god of the bible is supposed
> > to omniscient, but bible verses contradict this.  The god of
> > the bible is supposed to be
> > omnipotent, but bible verses also contradict this.  The god
> > of the bible is supposed to be good and do good things,
> > but bible verses show this god
> > doing evil.  The god of bible is supposed to be unable to
> > lie, but bible verses show the god of the bible lying and
> > instructing others to lie.  The god of the bible is supposed
> > to be able to predict the future, but
> > the god of the bible gets the future [now the past and
> > present] wrong. The god of the bible is a fraud.

> Great! So there ain't no god just because there are parts of
> the bible that contradict the idea that god is omni*.*?
> 
> Face it: you can't prove the non-existence of God. BTW,
> you can't prove the existence of God, either, because
> for every god you prove to exist, there might be another
> one above this one.

It is mathematically impossible to proove / disproove that a God exists. 
It is possible to proove that this particular one described by the bible
does not exist.

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