(August 12, 2017 at 11:34 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 12, 2017 at 9:12 pm)emjay Wrote: Well FWIW I wasn't thinking of you, or any other theist on this site for that matter, in my own reply to this thread... I was thinking of the sort of theist that wouldn't dare set foot on a site like this and engage with atheists, like some I know.
As to your cultural problems with atheism... how do you figure all of those?
Because I believe none of those values can be sustained by paradigms that devolve into nihilism, which is where atheism leads. Without some kind of transcendent reference point none of those values can be rationally justified.
But, your magical thinking justifies them just fine, right?
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