RE: What is Your Definition of Reasonable Faith?
February 24, 2017 at 12:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2017 at 12:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 24, 2017 at 2:42 am)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote: Hello everyone. Suppose that your definition of sufficient (whatever that may be) proof for the existence of a deity was satisfied. Also, suppose that the nature of this deity is completely different from the one described by human theists. Hence, assume that whatever objections you had to human theists' versions of god do not apply to this lifeform.k.
Quote:Now, would you accept the existence of this lifeform only and just go about your business?Yup, bit like squirrels.
Quote:Would you like to interact with it and learn from it (this process would not have to be through religion or any form of worship)?The notion that we have something to learn from it is one of those things you tossed in the bin, above, when stating that human theists versions of god do not apply to this lifeform.
Quote:Hence, as members of the secular community, are you more opposed to how humanity has collectively chosen to enact and practice their god concepts than to the actual idea of a god-like being itself?I don't think that the two are separable, at all. You tried, above...look how that turned out.
However, to answer the question on it's merits, lol, that I don;t believe the god botherers when they tell me that there's a god isn't an objection. It's just a statement of fact. I, personally, object to their shitty gods strictures and systems and normative proclamations. Which is why I tell them that the existence of their god is irrelevant to my status of faith. Their faiths fail, for me, not on grounds of the existence of their god...but on ethical/moral grounds unrelated to the existence of a deity.
I don't have a skeptical objection to their god (I don't believe in it, sure, but I don't believe in alot of things and some of them probably -are- true to some extent...brute force of numbers, lol)...I have a moral commitment to oppose their religions regardless. If someone came up with a less-than-miserable god concept...and religion surrounding it...I;d tell them that I dn;t believe them...still....but hey, carry on, right? Nothing immediately objectionable, so go do and believe in your god shit to your hearts content.
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