RE: The God of Convenience
January 3, 2015 at 9:41 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2015 at 9:50 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 3, 2015 at 2:16 pm)Lek Wrote:(January 1, 2015 at 11:37 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: The box I live in unquestionably exists, and I'm having so much fun exploring its many still-mysterious facets that spending time worshiping a hateful monster of a god doesn't hold much charm for me. The fact that this god-thingy doesn't have a single shred of evidence in favor of his existence, on this or any other "plane", "dimension", or any other hidey-hole you invent to explain his absence, means that not only do I find him morally repugnant, but so unlikely as to not merit further attention -- no matter how many people have been successfully programmed to suspend their disbelief.
Do you believe that Plato existed and that he wrote the works attributed to him?
You're asserting that a god exists, and asking me if a man existed? I'm smelling a bait-and-switch coming.
But hey, I'll play along. I believe Plato existed. He is mentioned in contemporaneous works, he left a body of his own works, and he wasn't claimed to be to be a divine being born of a virgin who resurrected after his death ... just in case you're trying to go there.
(January 3, 2015 at 3:43 pm)Lek Wrote:(January 3, 2015 at 3:33 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Because a lot of people wrote about him, we have dozens of his own works, and we witness philosophers writing down their ideas all the time. Is this hard?
No. I's not hard and I'm willing to accept most of that evidence. It shows that you also believe in the existence of persons based on that type of unscientific evidence. We have the same type of evidence for Jesus, except there's more and it's more recent.
This is factually incorrect. See H_M's thread about the Resurrection for details.
Also, having evidence for a man named Jesus is not the same as having evidence for the god named Jesus. Stop sliding those shells around.
Remember, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
