Q: Do you believe that God exists?
A: Do you believe that triangles exist?
Q: What do you mean?
A: Do you believe that “geometric figures consisting of a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are line segments” exist?
Q: Can't you just answer whether you believe in God or not?
A: Can you understand that I feel I can only answer your question if you can answer mine?
Q: Why wouldn't I believe in such figures? Look, is this drawing I am making of a triangle enough proof that triangles exist?
A: Who would accept that as a triangle? Don't you know that true triangles are made of true lines, which are sequences of non-dimensional points? How could you possibly see a true triangle? Isn't this thing on the paper just a very crude approximation of one? Would you be satisfied if I were to toss at you copies of the bible, the koran and the bhagavad gita as proofs that God exists?
Q: Are you saying that God is an idealisation? Wouldn't that imply that God is not real?
A: Is there a difference between something idealised and something perfect? Would it matter if God belonged in the world of ideas? Would you stop believing in God for being ideal? Besides, who said that ideal objects are not real?
Q: But shouldn't God be real, like us? How could God interact with us from a world of ideas?
A: Don't we interact with the concept of triangles, use them for our profit, approximate them as best we can to solve our problems?
Q: Are you never going to answer my question with a yes or a no?
A: Do you need an assertion? Haven't we reached an answer without making any?
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