RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
January 9, 2016 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2016 at 1:14 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 9, 2016 at 1:04 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Let's get this straight.
The reason (not for anything else) Theists are convinced by the moral argument or that goodness is linked to God is because they want to believe. Nothing else.
So if this is true Atheists wanting to believe should make them reach the same conclusion as them.
So I'm showing you by your statement, it would mean Atheists don't want to believe.
If you say it's a factor, but not the only reason, then yes Atheists can want or not want to believe, but have different reasons for not believing.
But then you shouldn't say Theists believe simply because they want to either.
So again, let's go back to the question, why do you think Theists (majority of the world) believe goodness is necessarily linked to God?
Probably because they haven't considered what it means to be good very much. I mean, well over 80% of the world's population are believers, and yet look what a shitty civilization they've built, what with cluster bombs and jihad and collateralized debt obligations and children starving in the streets even as bankers light cigars with $100 bills -- and what are you doing about it?
You're hectoring atheists on the Internet. That is your idea of doing good in this world?
If goodness is linked to God, then explain cancer, tsunamis, droughts, earthquakes, SIDS -- and your curious inaction in the face of it all. Go on -- I'll wait.
