From: Ziana Astralos (zianastralos@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 14:16:06 MDT
--- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
wrote:
> See
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/seat4.html#corner
> "Thirty Proofs of God's Existence."
> ...
LOL... I like this part, "Advice For Christians, or
How To Protect Your Faith", a little farther up on the
same page:
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01. Ensure that your concept of God is so vague that
nobody can know precisely what you are talking
about.
02. Pay no attention to people who try to reason with
you. Know that they are mere shysters out to
deceive you.
03. If doubts arise in your mind, then make the God-
concept even more vague. If possible, move God
beyond the reaches of thought where He'll be safe.
04. If your beliefs seem to contradict one another,
simply ignore the fact. Chant to yourself "God is
infinitely mysterious" two hundred or so times.
05. Learn to fully submit to God. In this way, you can
cease the irritating habit of thinking and soon
attain Peace.
06. Never cease to harden your beliefs. Otherwise,
reality will begin to seep into your life and
you'll be in real trouble. If you are having
difficulties, go to church services on a more
regular basis.
07. Take time to study the sciences. By doing so, you
will be better able to distort and misrepresent
them.
[ Case in point: In the local paper where I live,
there was a "letter to the editor"/opinion
column yesterday that just stunned me at the
sheer inanity of it-- the person insisted that
the genome map project is "proof" of 'God's
existence'...why? because it's referred to as a
'code' or 'book of life', etc etc... Oh, so now
newspaper/magazine columnists' and biotech co.'s
PR people's overused analogy-ish words are
'proof' of _anything_, aside from some people's
apparent lack of reasoning abilites? Wow...wow.
]
08. Do not read the Gospels too closely as you may
find some disturbing things. If you do find a
threatening passage, ignore it. If some unease
remains, go to your local preacher. His life is
dedicated to your well-being.
09. Above all, do not think for yourself. If you do,
your friends will leave you and you'll be alone.
God does not approve of anti-social ways.
[ Unless the person doesn't believe in God - even
if they believe in another god, but not The One
True God(TM)...which is always by definition the
god _you_ believe in, and any other god is just
a False God(TM) (while the other people believe
the same thing from their perspective!) - and
then it's fine to ignore them all you want. ]
10. Listen to your feelings. If they are happy, then
God is happy - for God created us to be happy, did
he not?
Note: Do not hesitate to use violence, whether against
a threatening thought or an evil atheist. God
thoroughly approves the use of violence to protect the
faith.
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