RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?
November 25, 2015 at 12:34 pm
(November 25, 2015 at 12:07 pm)Kingpin Wrote:(November 25, 2015 at 12:00 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Who said anything about "impossible"? There's a world of difference between accepting or not accepting a mundane claim such as "Kingpin's wife loves him" on the one hand and an extraordinary claim such as "the creator of the universe, who exists somehow beyond time/space, communicated with me after breakfast" on the other.
You know that perfectly well.
Ah but what is mundane to you, may be of profound importance to someone else. For example, if you don't care God or no God, then you are less likely to critically examine any evidence. If it has importance to you, you are more likely to examine it objectively. There are thousands upon thousands of first hand accounts of encounters with God/Jesus. There are also thousands of first hand encounters with aliens. But it seems some are willing to accept the idea of aliens more than God, even though there is no definitive proof for either besides testimony and stories. Why do you suppose that is?
Thousands upon thousands of people who claim to have had first hand encounters with God/Jesus (or Shiva or Allah or Apollo or . . . whatever), not to mention the thousands who claim to have encountered aliens, are more likely to examine their claims objectively?!? Tell me you're joking. If not, what is your evidence for this claim? Because my experience of people is that the more profoundly significant the experience, the more likely the person in question will get defensive when the experience is examined objectively.
And I'm not sure where you get the notion that I "accept the idea of aliens more than God" (I assume we're still talking about aliens visiting Earth) since I don't recall ever speaking to that point on these forums. I find the idea of intergalactic travelers of such technical sophistication that they can cross unimaginable oceans of space just to come to Earth to visit -- and in some cases anally probe -- a variety of hicks from the backwaters ludicrous in the extreme -- certainly the type of extraordinary claim that requires more than personal testimony before I'll buy into it.
Just like god claims.
