Originally posted by moonbusVery true
If it were only about imaginary friends, I could turn a blind eye to it; to each his own. Oh, but it gets so much sillier, and yet at the same time more earnest, than that! Some people will kill you for putting a slosh of rum in your eggnog, or for going about in public with so much as an eyebrow uncovered, or for educating your daughters. Sheesh.
Originally posted by apathistParaphrasing:
There is reality, and there is our understanding of it.
The gods thing is kind of stupid. We need to grow up, if we are important.
There is truth and reality. We can't access the former in general, just the later.
So we can't make absolute Statements about the existence or non-existence of God.
Originally posted by PonderableAgreed
Paraphrasing:
There is truth and reality. We can't access the former in general, just the later.
So we can't make absolute Statements about the existence or non-existence of God.
But if we assume a god we can make deductions of his character based on the evidence around us.
Perhaps we can then eliminate some versions?
Originally posted by moonbusThat is my problem. I'm okay with whatever peaceful beliefs people have, unless they think they have to save my soul. Then I think, what kind of gods do you have?
If it were only about imaginary friends, I could turn a blind eye to it; to each his own. Oh, but it gets so much sillier, and yet at the same time more earnest, than that! Some people will kill you for putting a slosh of rum in your eggnog, or for going about in public with so much as an eyebrow uncovered, or for educating your daughters. Sheesh.
It is the noisy believers that bother me. How come they don't know that they don't know what happens when we die?
