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An argument for why God would make himself known.
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 (October 29, 2014 at 4:32 am)LastPoet Wrote: I have no evidence that God or Satan are socks I remember... that theodicy thread really got to him.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 (October 28, 2014 at 10:12 pm)Christian Wrote: God is not evil, Satan is! Full stop! Define evil. As I remember, there was a story about an entity asking a certain guy to kill his own son.... and right at the last minute he said, "naaahhhhh, don't do it, man. you're cool, kill this goat instead!" Was that entity - Satan - God - Delusion ?  RE: An argument for why God would make himself known.
October 29, 2014 at 9:18 am
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(October 28, 2014 at 10:08 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Perhaps a reason why God if he exists would make himself known is so we don't entertain the possibility that he is evil.Who says God is hidden? Seems obvious enough to me and easily deducible from experience. It just seems to me that atheists go out of their way to ground basic features of reality in something other than the All. The attempt to do so is illogical and makes no sense to me.   RE: An argument for why God would make himself known.
October 29, 2014 at 9:45 am
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(October 29, 2014 at 9:18 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Who says God is hidden? Seems obvious enough to me and easily deducible from experience. It just seems to me that atheists go out of their way to ground basic features of reality in something other than the All. The attempt to do so is illogical and makes no sense to me. I think I spotted the problem.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
RE: An argument for why God would make himself known.
October 29, 2014 at 9:55 am
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(October 29, 2014 at 9:45 am)Stimbo Wrote:(October 29, 2014 at 9:18 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Who says God is hidden? Seems obvious enough to me and easily deducible from experience. It just seems to me that atheists go out of their way to ground basic features of reality in something other than the All. The attempt to do so is illogical and makes no sense to me. If God wanted everyone to know He exists... He could have wrote his name on the side of the moon. But He wanted to keep us guessing so he made the moon the same apparent size as the sun. 
So...God doesn't want everyone to know He exists?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
For what purpose?
Besides which, the Moon has been tidally drifting away from us for the best part of 4,000,000,000 years and for most of that time was far closer to Earth, thus appearing far larger than the Sun. Not to mention the wide variations in its orbit that make it appear sometimes larger and sometimes smaller. Try again.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(October 29, 2014 at 9:45 am)Stimbo Wrote:Fair enough. Why do you consider atheism properly basic when the opposite reflects our natural inclination to attribute reason, meaning, and significance to the world as we experience it?(October 29, 2014 at 9:18 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Who says God is hidden? Seems obvious enough to me and easily deducible from experience. It just seems to me that atheists go out of their way to ground basic features of reality in something other than the All. The attempt to do so is illogical and makes no sense to me.
This, by the way, is the same god that supposedly wrestled with people and appeared directly to Adam and Eve, and that supposedly paints pictures on burned toast. Yet doesn't write its name on the Moon or do anything even accidentally compelling or verifiable because it doesn't want everyone to know it's there.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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