Burning question

I had a discussion with a devout, evangelical X-tian last winter on a rowing training camp, and he allowed me to pick his brains about a topic that had been bothering me for some time: ghosts and god. Specifically, why one and not the other?

This question became intensified in my mind on the Easter holidays when I was touring old castles with Pirate's mom and little brother. Our tour guide at one particular castle kept getting destracted from the historical element of the tour to tell us about all the castle ghosts. Little Pirate (as we may as well call him, despite the fact that he's 26 years old and a certified engineer) is a devout evangelical christian and got all huffy over the mention of ghosts. Finally he got so fed up with the whole thing he left the tour, lest his ears continue to be accosted by such unholy utterances as the story of the spinning woman in the dungeon.

I find this very difficult to reconcile. If one believes in a god, an omnipotent, supernatural being, why cannot ghosts exist as well? How does one justify the existance of one but deny the possiblity of the other? It seems to me the one is just as un/likely as t'other. So what gives?

Here, then, are your questions:

1. Do you believe in a supernatural deity/god creature?

2. Do you believe in ghosts?

3. If you answered questions 1 and 2 differently, WHY??? (If you answered them the same than you may be wrong, but at least you're consistent.)

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