ChadWooters Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:My 'Intro to Religion' professor in college (before I was an atheist, though he was a BIG help in that regard) did a thought experiment where there was a 'God Detector' and you would have to take it all over the universe to say there was no God.
That's the most ignorant thing I've ever heard, even if came from presumably theist professor (you didn't specify). The person using such a device would be looking for an isolated instance of a particular being. That would be the nature of gods in pagan polytheism and is the exact opposite of what omnipresence, in the Christian tradition, means which is being everywhere at all times by pervading the very fabric of reality.
He was Orthodox Christian. Yeah, he could have gone with 'we're not going to discuss atheism in this class because it isn't a religion' and I wouldn't have blinked, but he had to try to prove it false instead. I likely wouldn't have picked up a copy of 'The Case Against God' from the library to learn more about atheism if not for that silly argument against it that made me curious.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
