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To: GraniteStateConservative

"I don't have a God complex. That's silly. It makes as much sense to say I have a Tooth Fairy complex. God has a God complex. He thinks he is omnipotent and omnibenevolent and omniscient, despite the evidence to the contrary. I don't seek to disprove God like I don't seek to disprove Santa Claus. Neither have any relevance to me one way or the other."

You are showing your philosophical nudity with these comparisons between divine beings and Santa Claus.

Santa Claus (actually based on a real person with no inherent divine qualities) and the tooth fairy (no idea where that one came from) are not proposed as divine, unlike Christ, Hindu gods or animist supernaturals.

Such comparisons are just silly and designed to weed out only the most lightweight theist intellectuals from the discussion.


108 posted on 03/31/2007 8:10:09 AM PDT by MIT-Elephant ("Armed with what? Spitballs?")
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To: MIT-Elephant
Santa Claus (actually based on a real person with no inherent divine qualities) and the tooth fairy (no idea where that one came from) are not proposed as divine, unlike Christ, Hindu gods or animist supernaturals.

Fine, substitute Zeus, Ra, Zoraster, Mithra, Vishnu, whatever. You think belief in those entities is ridiculous, I'm sure.

114 posted on 03/31/2007 9:15:24 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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