RE: A practical definition for "God"
September 17, 2015 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2015 at 7:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:That's because science is not equipped to test the supernatural.I know right, if I hand you a scope and tell you to find the deer in an empty field...no matter how long you stare through that instrument, you'll never see those damned deer.
Magic!
Perhaps, when people call your belief unfounded, they mean that it is unfounded relative to other things a person might hold as beliefs?
I don't think that every christian who claims a brush with the the divine is being honest (and it was once considered heretical to claim such a thing), but some of them undoubtedly are, they've experienced something. Calling that something a god is the unfounded bit, not the compulsion they feel as a consequence of whatever experience they've had. Sometimes I wonder if people think that they're being told that their -experience- itself wasn't real, or the -motivation- to action they feel isn't real...when they're told that their belief is unfounded. Does anyone doubt that people experience things, or that these experiences can be compelling? I hardly think so. It's certainly been -my- experience that both the experience and the compulsion are the palpable ends of religious faith, I'd call that very well founded - the god bit...not so much.
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