RE: Dear Resident Theists
August 27, 2015 at 3:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2015 at 3:54 am by Lucanus.)
(August 26, 2015 at 9:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Knowledge of religion has more to duty with knowledge of what it means to be human and our purpose thereof. Our relationship to God is of the identity we have as humans.
What is 'god'? Give me a definition that is not a word salad, and I'll begin to try to take you seriously.
(August 26, 2015 at 9:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: The true religion comes to fulfill our nature and calls to our nature.
And that would be?
(August 26, 2015 at 9:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Atheists don't even recognize they are a soul. So how will they remember and recall the higher purpose, the tree of life/light, and so on an so forth.
See mate, the problem is that "Atheists" (who, by the way, might believe in a soul) generally don't like to believe in things without a reason. What is a soul? What is it made of? Does it interact with the material world? If it does, how can we measure its activity based on its interactions with the material world? If it doesn't, what does it explain that can't be better explained by a materialist solution?
(August 26, 2015 at 9:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: How will they see the face of God/name of God? They are in denial from the believers perspective. They take every spiritual knowledge as a mockery and deny it's existence in humans or fail to recognize it in themselves.
The problem with your view is that you seem to think that unbelief is a "fault" of the unbeliever. I, on the other hand, think that such an evident god would be pretty easy to believe in, if it existed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(August 26, 2015 at 9:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: This is while they rely on it when valuing people for their actions for example.
Relying on what exactly? When I trust somebody with doing something, for example, I do it because I *know* them, I *know* what they're like, and because I *know* they exist. From the unbeliever's point of view, one might say you're in denial...
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."