RE: If there is a creator, so what?
November 15, 2016 at 2:28 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2016 at 3:48 am by Ignorant.)
(November 14, 2016 at 9:35 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Not at all. I was a Hindu before becoming an atheist. What reason would I have for presuming the creator is like your god rather than mine? [1] This points to a major problem with Christianity in that it is founded upon a book that has multiple flaws. [2] Why would I assume its putative author had anything to do with creation? [3]
1) The reasons that would have led to the conclusion that it is real. Please don't misunderstand me. I am not proposing at this point that the purely rational conception of god is the same thing as Christianity's god and certainly not Hindu's god.
The most basic, purely rational conception of god, as far as I can tell, is subsistent-being. If Hindu's god is subsistent-being, then at this point in the discussion, we have no disagreement.
2) How many times have you heard me make reference to that book in the this thread? Zero.
3) I don't know. You certainly haven't read that assumption in this thread.
