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The discussion is now going downhill. They are not even close to the same. Putting the Tooth Fairy and God in the same category is a useful rhetorical tool for atheists and only a substitute for argument and evidence. One is physical and one is non-physical. >
>I'm sorry to tell you, the conversation was going downhill the minute you backtracked on the "can't prove a negative" argument. <s>
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>But no worries, I know that religion is such a cultural factor for many - and perhaps Jos is right that it does condition many peple.
I said the vast majority of people are conditioned, totally, with or without religion.
>But yes, they have one major component in common - no physical evidence on either of them.
You set the standard of measurement (physical evidence) to which God, if one exists, must conform. If a God exists, and I only postulate an if, then I would think it would be presumptuous to dictate how that God should prove himself to you.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.