RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 26, 2014 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2014 at 1:08 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(February 26, 2014 at 3:51 am)fr0d0 Wrote: You don't appear to be following the discussion. Scientism is an illogical stance, whereas my beliefs are entirely rational.
Ah, so unlike most people, you think your beliefs are entirely rational. You are SO different from all the people who tell us their beliefs are entirely irrational!
(February 26, 2014 at 12:34 pm)discipulus Wrote:(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: If the earth did have a motive I would despair were it as banal as the one your religion offers (to praise a God that doesn't need it but demands it).
Bingo. You would "despair". This is as I suspected.
(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: First I recognised there was no God.
How did you recognize there was no God?
(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: Then I was relieved.
Bingo again. This is right in line with what I suspected.
(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: Then I realized that "the lack of a reason" equated exactly to true freedom.
Bingo again. This is similar to what both Huxley and Nagel say.
That is all what I suspected you would say.