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Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
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Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:42:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:

By your yardstick, Islam is at least 68% as well "proven" as Christianity,
and Hinduism is about 47% as well proven.  What happens when the number of
Muslims outstrips the number of Christians?  Does the Christian God then
become "untrue" while Allah becomes King of The Mountain of Truth?  What if
301 million Christians convert to Islam?  Would that tip the Scales of
Divine Existence?

It would still be the same God.  Jesus would be demoted fom avatar of God to
prophet of God, however.

What happened to Buddhists on this scale?

God help us if L. Ron Hubbard preached breeding as swiftly as possible to
Scientologists.  :-)

-->Bruce<--



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  Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
 
(...) Hmm... If popular opinion is all that's required to establish "proof" of a metaphysical entity's existence, then I'd say that the Christian God had better watch over His Shoulder. According to one set of statistics, Christianity can lay claim (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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