RE: A good reason not to believe in God
February 18, 2011 at 8:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2011 at 9:01 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Fascinating Void,probably be even better once I understand it..
Are you arguing that God can be reasoned into or out of existence? A simple soul,untrained in philosophy, (I only had a year at university) that is not a position I'm able to accept, and why I only argued with a Catholic theologian once---and he wasn't even one of their top guys.
For the sake of my own sanity,I've been obliged to adopt a simple,but I think reasonable proposition; I demand supporting evidence before accepting any argument as more than possible/likely/probable.That a metaphysical proposition may be unprovable and unfalsifiable is not my problem. I have no problem with not knowing "the why" of something. I'm more interested in "the what"and my choices for dealing with things which effect me. In reality, I have [arguably] control over my own actions and very little else.
Perhaps I'm confused. My understanding is the notion of truth through reason alone comes from the so-called neo Platonists,and is favoured by apologists, from Augustine of Hippo onwards.
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PS the emoticons are not working for me
Are you arguing that God can be reasoned into or out of existence? A simple soul,untrained in philosophy, (I only had a year at university) that is not a position I'm able to accept, and why I only argued with a Catholic theologian once---and he wasn't even one of their top guys.
For the sake of my own sanity,I've been obliged to adopt a simple,but I think reasonable proposition; I demand supporting evidence before accepting any argument as more than possible/likely/probable.That a metaphysical proposition may be unprovable and unfalsifiable is not my problem. I have no problem with not knowing "the why" of something. I'm more interested in "the what"and my choices for dealing with things which effect me. In reality, I have [arguably] control over my own actions and very little else.
Perhaps I'm confused. My understanding is the notion of truth through reason alone comes from the so-called neo Platonists,and is favoured by apologists, from Augustine of Hippo onwards.
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PS the emoticons are not working for me
