This Freefall strip pretty much sums up my viewpoint on the subject: It is unreasonable to stipulate that any one religious faith is true unless you're willing to grant that ALL of them are simultaneously true.
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The deist of whatever flavor says "I am certain beyond any doubt that there is a god or gods."
The atheist says "I am certain beyond any doubt that there is no god."
The agnostic says "It isn't possible to know whether or not there is a god."
I say, because we don't know the nature of any hypothetical god, we don't know what would constitute proof of the existence or non-existence of gods, therefore it isn't possible to know even whether it is possible to know whether there is a god. Beyond that, much as Arthur Clarke stated that any sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic, I propose that any sufficiently enlightened and evolved intelligence is indistinguishable from godhood.
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