Go ahead, be aggressive, just remember that I bite.
I do wonder the same thing - if there is a god, and it's deist sort, what's the point? I think of someone who builds a hugely complex model train set and then abandons it. Maybe that's still human bias coming through. [shrugs]
But I was once accused of so thoroughly not needing philosophy that it's rather moot. I just do what I do. Hence my Whitman quote.
I do wonder the same thing - if there is a god, and it's deist sort, what's the point? I think of someone who builds a hugely complex model train set and then abandons it. Maybe that's still human bias coming through. [shrugs]
But I was once accused of so thoroughly not needing philosophy that it's rather moot. I just do what I do. Hence my Whitman quote.
(April 29, 2011 at 12:58 pm)Cinjin Cain Wrote: Why is it so important to you that my God be involved in my life????Too many times arguing with other theists - generalizations get made and deists get swept into the same dustpan?
(April 29, 2011 at 12:58 pm)Cinjin Cain Wrote: Why does my God have to make sense to you?I asked the question - as long as I'm still listening, the most polite thing you could do is find a common language to make me understand.