RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 12:53 am
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2017 at 1:06 am by Abaddon_ire.)
(November 6, 2017 at 12:44 am)Hammy Wrote: None.
But "You just gotta have faith" is pretty mindless.
I kinda toss that one straight out. One could have faith in magic universe forming pixies for all I care. Does not make them real.
Faith, very simply, is an excuse for believing anything for which no evidence exists.
(November 6, 2017 at 12:47 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Pre-suppositionalists drive me up the tree, too. It’s the worst perversion of philosophy I’ve ever encountered and is invariably presented in a manner so smug and self-satisfied that my first reaction isn’t to argue with the person so much as to grab a good stout stick.
Wow. And there I was thinking it was just me.
I deliberately did not mention the "smug and self-satisfied" part because I did not want to lead the conversation as it were. That is a really irritating thing. As a placid and pacifist bloke, little provokes me to anger and violence. Pre-suppositionalists get in that very short list. There they find themselves in the company of child molesters. I have two kids and if anyone laid a wrong finger upon them I could not be responsible for my actions. That is how visceral the Pre-suppositionalists get for me.
Calm down, don't swear. OK we are all good.
