RE: Theism is literally childish
November 11, 2017 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2017 at 1:41 pm by John V.)
(November 10, 2017 at 5:42 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I will take a finite amount of gifts in life as it is, to a promise of eternal life. heh:
False dichotomy.
(November 11, 2017 at 6:13 am)Mathilda Wrote: But that's because children get told the truth by adults when they are still impressionable. Imagine a world wide virus wiped out everyone over 8 years old, the Santa Claus myth would then
... die out on the next Dec. 25th.
(November 11, 2017 at 11:01 am)emjay Wrote: On further reflection on this... if the technical definition of a delusion is relative to cultural/group norms, what would you call, if not a delusion, a belief system that displays, when viewed independently of any of that relativity, all the hallmarks (ie 'symptoms' as it were) of a belief system that is irrationally protected, maintained, and argued?
Then the belief that life can spontaneously arise from inanimate matter is a delusion. Every day there are billions of experiments on this, and it has never once happened - even with much better building blocks as starters than were presumably available in the past.
(November 11, 2017 at 12:32 pm)Mathilda Wrote: A god cannot literally be a father though without also being human and breeding (which would at least explain why God cannot be referred to as Goddess, an idea that christians seem to loathe). Being a creator is not enough to be referred to as a Father. He is referred to as that because of how he is portrayed. Just type "god is your father" into google to see the hits that come back.
You've never heard of adoption?
You know that the bible specifically says that god is our father through adoption, right?
