RE: Theism is literally childish
November 11, 2017 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2017 at 5:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 11, 2017 at 11:01 am)emjay Wrote: what would you call,
I call it a delusion...not because I'm interested in diagnosing someone or isolating abberrent patterns of thought or behavior...but because it's delusional.
Only offered the exposition because I found it amusing that someone was retreating into the clinical disgnosis...and that does more to harm their objection than it does to support it. That and to help you understand that the status of gods as proven or unproven is irrelevant. God beliefs could be delusional even if there were a god. Two people claim that god speaks to them in mutually excluive ways..they can;t both be right, at least one of them is delusional...as expressed in the example of christians and hindus...however...the third possibility, that they're both delusional...infinitely more likely.
God isn't watching anyone pee. There..I said it. I think everyone knows that. It's unlikely that a god botherer is sitting on the john squeezing out a turd and thinks "I wonder what this looks like from GOD's POV!?!?!" The people who express a belief in some sort of omnipresent deity are describing a delusional belief, but I doubt they actually believe what they describe in the first place. It's pious theater. The belief that others won;t recognize pious theater for what it is...similarly, delusional.
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