RE: If you were ever a theist...
January 2, 2016 at 9:31 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2016 at 9:32 pm by Whateverist.)
(January 2, 2016 at 4:43 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(January 2, 2016 at 4:30 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: The place where the mystic, intuition toward faith worries me is when it goes to ground in established dogma. I'll cop to honoring those sorts of intuitions. But I never will cash them in for off the rack, religious beliefs. Creator god, after life and moral arbiter are not roles I'm casting for in my life.
This is it. The heart of the issue. The issue of submission to a Guiding Lord through appointed Guides, is something you have to want for proofs and evidence to become effective per my belief.
I feel like I'd understand you better if I understood the bolded sentence. If I understand you correctly, you may be right. A 'proof' as you use the word may turn on the audience being in a closed system (like math and logic) of a uni-culture with a common tradition regarding the 'sacred'. Perhaps it is because that is condition is fading away that the appeal of such attempts to persuade too is also fading.