RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 19, 2018 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2018 at 2:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 19, 2018 at 2:00 pm)emjay Wrote: By this do you mean that in your opinion, agnosticism gives more weight to the god question than it deserves?Precisely that, yes...and not by a little...by a country mile. How would we respond if someone demanded that we prove the Cat in the Hat was not real, or that Dracula was not a news report from the victorian front? We (and even the religious) immediately realize that either of these requests is trivial and....less-than-serious. However, can we isolate exactly what the functional difference between either of those requests is in comparison to a "prove god isn't real!" demand?
@Whatevs,
Sure, you have a nicer way of putting things than me. Most people do. It's still a claim of knowledge, and directly in contradiction with what they're asserting when they posit the existence of gods.
"If by gods you mean the things in your head" - they do not, even if that's what "gods" are. Just as, above, the request to prove that the cat in the hat isn't real is not a request to prove that there are no books, or that no child believes in the cat in the hat..if we use it as a functional equivalent to god claims for comparison.
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