(August 5, 2016 at 3:15 am)robvalue Wrote: What annoys me the most is when people try to define "God" so that it necessarily exists. That is really pathetic. They then use their definition as "evidence".
In fact, it's "evidence" that they are exploring their imagination and nothing more. So much of theism is circular; more so when religion gets involved.
I've even heard deists sort-of say that "no cause at all for our reality" could be a possible definition of "God". But that still makes the assumption that there is even a placeholder for a cause/non cause and not instead an eternal reality.
I know, tell me about it...
