RE: God and the dilemma with unfalsifiability
August 28, 2017 at 10:34 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2017 at 10:40 am by Harry Nevis.)
(August 27, 2017 at 8:58 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: God watches over every blade of grass, too. I guess I don't see the problem.
People on the inside of the bubble seldom do.
(August 27, 2017 at 9:19 am)alpha male Wrote:(August 26, 2017 at 5:15 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I'm not sure how anyone can be comfortable with gullibility. But to each his or her own...
Really? Most people have no problem accepting non-falsifiable positions if they like those positions. A gay or trans person says there were born that way. Plenty of atheists take that at face value, even though it's not falsifiable. Well, actually, it pretty much is falsified by twins studies, but you guys accept it anyway.
Quote:Maybe if you can demonstrate that those things happen at a significantly higher rate for Christians than people of other religions, or no religions, you may have a point.
I'm not trying to prove a point. The question was whether I'm comfortable with it, not whether I could prove it to your satisfaction.
So you prefer comfort to truth.
(August 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm)alpha male Wrote:(August 26, 2017 at 9:57 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: god is a psychological construct created by man, or if you prefer, the human mind. Probably subconsciously in the beginning but expanded upon consciously when recognized as a tool to modify behavior within a society.
It's usefulness as a tool is waning.
Hardly. Europe has largely abandoned Christianity, and it's largely abandoned having babies. Secular attempts at encouraging procreation haven't worked, so now they're importing people, largely theists, to fill the gap.
Secular attempts?
(August 28, 2017 at 8:15 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: The forums need an ignore function, not just for posts, so we don't have to see obscene thread titles by desprate commie sodomites.
The persecution never ends, does it?
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam