(August 3, 2011 at 4:12 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well put. On the other hand, reality does begin and end with facts. Hard evidence. We have it, they do not. Frodo is only speaking for god because god is unable to speak for himself, being confined to the immaterial, locked somehow in Frodo's mind.
Honestly, why is it that I can find meaning in the religious experience without requiring it to be factually accurate in any way, without the crutch of it's being some objective moral truth; whereas the believer seems unable to do the same?
Because your disbelief makes it unnecessary for it to be true.