(August 14, 2011 at 9:13 pm)C Rod Wrote: Or sense there are many claims of an afterlife then it should be considered.
This is where you are very wrong my friend. Many people make many claims to many different things, but that is no reason to consider something. One must use logic and reasoning to determine the existence of an afterlife. Using these tools one, can only come to the conclusion that it his a human construct to deal with a temporary existence.
C Rod Wrote:Comparing the "teapot" to the testimonies of men about a God is what gets me. That analogy may be a comparable one sense there is no observational proof but one is extensively detailed and one is a mere idea told for logical purposes. But an atheists will fight for the atheist agenda.
Extensively detailed? Just because something can be described does not make it valid. That is the point of the teapot. Also Greek mythology is just as extensively detailed so it must be just as valid according to your argument.
And I'm not sure what you mean by atheist agenda. The only agenda atheists have that I am aware of is to get people to live in reality.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
