Dualism

[josef rosenkranz]

Where areth thou, my friend?

In the meanwhile to clarify things further consider the following assertions:

1) belief in the existence of the christian god does not require proof to subscribe to it
2) the existence of the christian god does not require proof to be true
3) the existence of the hindu gods does not require proof to be true
4) the existence of the christian god a) is true AND b) does not require proof
5) the existence of the christian god a) is true BECAUSE it does not require proof
6) belief in general does not require proof
7) the existence of the christian god does not require belief to be true
8) the existence of hindu gods does not require belief to be true

Which of these assertions in your opinion are true statements, which of them are false?

Your puzzle is not accurate formulated unless you define the "religious" views of yor opponent.

If you are addresing the questions to an atheist then all of them are irrelevant because he does not believe ,or "almost" don't believe (I always stumble over this "almost" Dawkins' word which I don't accept) in the existence of god nor inthe truth of any religion.

If you addres the question to a convinced christian who grew in a religious family and does not question any of it's believes and commandments, then for him any proof is unnecessary.

The most interesting situation is if you ask a non christian person who is considering to adopt christianism out of conviction. Then he might require to get proofs about the existence of god and the truth of religion.
Now in this case he will need to read the holly sciptures and if he has an open mind and is willing to adopt a reasonal thinking he will very soon draw the conclusion that all these scriptures were written by men in variuos epochs,for a multitude of political,social economical,spiritual,,,reasons,all of them convincing about the opposit of their purpose,namely the creation of god by man.