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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?
(March 13, 2017 at 10:57 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(March 13, 2017 at 10:11 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: But YOUR god is a strawman. How can skeptical observations be persuasive, when what you believe is an emotional belief, not based in logic or reality?

In a particularly resonate line from the movie Rango - "No man can walk away from his own story." Everyone starts from their own experience. I believe it is right and proper for people to approach reality with their whole being. There is a place for logical analysis. But not when listening to Bach, staring out over the Ocean, reflecting on personal existence alienated from the a larger world that is wholly Other, or finding inexplicable peace hidden in crushing defeat and anguish. That is the human condition. No doubt, these have an emotional component but they also represent kinds of unmediated knowing - approaching reality on its terms and not our own. After those fleeting moments of numinous insight, sober reflection does not ask if those experiences are real, for that is to deny one's own reality; but rather, what they mean and live fully by rationally incorporating them into one's life.

But of course, YMMV.

[My bold.]

Fine but personally I wouldn't be so eager to plug such moments into the service of reinforcing conclusions arrived at in less inspired moments.
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RE: Atheists, what are the most convincing theist arguments you heard of? - by Whateverist - March 13, 2017 at 1:09 pm

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