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Atheists, what are the most convincing theist arguments you heard of?
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RE: Atheists, what are the most convincing theist arguments you heard of?
Yeah, Huggy, you might want to consider that the quality of conversation you get has more to do with you than any attribute of atheists.

(March 13, 2017 at 11:15 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Bullshit.  Applying appropriate levels of skepticism to personal experience is a sign that you accept your human experience for what it is, flawed and imperfect.  Anything else is a denial of what we know about the human condition.  To be swayed by the numinous to Godly conclusions is just ignoring our greater knowledge of how such experiences fool us.  That's the real denial.

Bingo. He's essentially saying that the intellect will tell us that some of our experiences and feelings do not coordinate with reality, and he doesn't want to do that. Chad likes his warm-fuzzies too much to be concerned with whether they're real or not.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Atheists, what are the most convincing theist arguments you heard of? - by Faith No More - March 13, 2017 at 11:42 am

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