RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
November 27, 2016 at 1:05 am
As this sorry thread approaches the 100-page mark, I've been pondering one question: Why? What drives someone like Mariosep? Why sign up for a forum hostile to one's ideas and repeatedly hammer out the same dissonant chord?
At this point, I can come to only one conclusion: Mariosep's obsessive defence of his "proof" is really all that stands between him and apostasy. If he were to take our criticisms to heart he would then have to question the other things upon which he has built his faith, and if they were to fall, he would lose everything. A dream of eternal life in a celestial paradise could vanish in an instant, leaving him drifting in a world he is not yet ready to understand.
A faith that leads someone to ignore valid criticisms, tell lies about one's critics and generally behave like an insufferably pompous ass is already a dead faith, rotten meat that does no gods any honour. Mariosep is deeply wounded and we cannot help him.
At this point, I can come to only one conclusion: Mariosep's obsessive defence of his "proof" is really all that stands between him and apostasy. If he were to take our criticisms to heart he would then have to question the other things upon which he has built his faith, and if they were to fall, he would lose everything. A dream of eternal life in a celestial paradise could vanish in an instant, leaving him drifting in a world he is not yet ready to understand.
A faith that leads someone to ignore valid criticisms, tell lies about one's critics and generally behave like an insufferably pompous ass is already a dead faith, rotten meat that does no gods any honour. Mariosep is deeply wounded and we cannot help him.
