RE: If there is a creator, so what?
November 17, 2016 at 5:14 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 5:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Will living as if there's no oxygen somehow mean that we can't lead a full and whole human life? How did we manage, then, before we discovered it's existence, back in 1774?
How would you respond to the counterclaim that living as though god were real, or indeed god being real...your god particularly, would -prevent- or seriously threaten the ability of a person from living a full and whole human life? If a person believes that stringing up the better man redeems them, or if indeed it -does- redeem them....for example, then any metrics of a full and whole human life which include empathy, ethics, and moral accountability are anathema to your claim.
I, personally, cannot live a full and whole human life unless I deny that offer and disavow that god.....regardless of whether or not either exists.
Now, you've given us a pedestrain description of god as being analog to oxygen, but clearly, there's some other reason to care, or some reason that you think we should care. It can't have anything to do with that earlier, pedestrian description. Nor can it have anything to do with "most fundamentals", or most mostest fundamentals, so on and so forth ad infinitum...because you're not even talking about the same things when you shift back and forth from one to the other. Something being fundamental to my being, or my being alive, such as oxygen, doesn't say anything about a full and whole human life anymore than oxygen being fundamental says something about the same. God being fundamental, or most fundamental, simply doesn't change my position above.....you see? You're simply arguing for the neccessity of god, another "god exists" argument, not a reason to care.
Weren't you granted license to skip all the "god exists" stuff, so that it didn't get in the way of answering the "so what?" question?
How would you respond to the counterclaim that living as though god were real, or indeed god being real...your god particularly, would -prevent- or seriously threaten the ability of a person from living a full and whole human life? If a person believes that stringing up the better man redeems them, or if indeed it -does- redeem them....for example, then any metrics of a full and whole human life which include empathy, ethics, and moral accountability are anathema to your claim.
I, personally, cannot live a full and whole human life unless I deny that offer and disavow that god.....regardless of whether or not either exists.
Now, you've given us a pedestrain description of god as being analog to oxygen, but clearly, there's some other reason to care, or some reason that you think we should care. It can't have anything to do with that earlier, pedestrian description. Nor can it have anything to do with "most fundamentals", or most mostest fundamentals, so on and so forth ad infinitum...because you're not even talking about the same things when you shift back and forth from one to the other. Something being fundamental to my being, or my being alive, such as oxygen, doesn't say anything about a full and whole human life anymore than oxygen being fundamental says something about the same. God being fundamental, or most fundamental, simply doesn't change my position above.....you see? You're simply arguing for the neccessity of god, another "god exists" argument, not a reason to care.
Weren't you granted license to skip all the "god exists" stuff, so that it didn't get in the way of answering the "so what?" question?
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