RE: "How God got started", how god belief + basic reason + writing -> modern humans?
October 10, 2017 at 4:52 pm
(October 10, 2017 at 3:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 9, 2017 at 10:03 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Those of us who do not start with an unseen, unmoved mover will never find one in our reality.
I've never seen a quark either but I've been told that we can deduce their existence from what can be seen.
(October 9, 2017 at 9:42 pm)Whateverist Wrote: What this author and I are after is a natural account of how the emergence of secular reasoning may have pushed polytheism to monotheism.
I do not have a problem with the notion that new intellectual tools could have changed how people relate with the world, including the Divine. To me that is not a challenge to theism.
And I don't think it is a challenge to theism either. That is why I thought it might interest you even though it is a challenge in that it looks for a natural account of something you prefer to receive through revelation.
(October 10, 2017 at 3:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Philosophical reasoning just opens up another way of approaching the Divine.
Otherwise, I think the article is a train-wreck, jumping from thought to thought without any clear line of reasoning.
Still don't understand why you think this. It brings a wide range of work together in a jargon free way I appreciate. Sure it is a big ideas sort of approach, but that seems appropriate coming from classics guy. Not my bailiwick but I would have thought you'd be comfortable enough with that sort of thing given your comfort with theology. But different strokes for different folks I guess.
