(August 14, 2015 at 4:38 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:(August 14, 2015 at 3:48 pm)Shuffle Wrote: Hence the problem of all religions ever.It's only the FSM that makes the assertion that the only dogma is that there is no dogma.
When someone writes something, do you believe they did so with a specific meaning/intent? And if so, do you believe that the author's original intent is knowable?
Waiting for three....
No, the FSM did not make such a claim (and you saying that must mean you believe in the FSM; otherwise, the FSM could not say anything if it did not exist, could it?). You are confusing claims made about the FSM with the FSM. You would be complaining if we made the same mistake about a Christian god, confusing what some particular Christian said about it with what its nature really was. But that is what you are doing with the FSM; you imagine that some church of the FSM saying something necessitates something about the FSM, which is false and wrong.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
