RE: Christians and Their Homework!
March 1, 2018 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2018 at 9:01 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 1, 2018 at 8:38 am)chimp3 Wrote:(March 1, 2018 at 1:35 am)stretch3172 Wrote: It's simply the final paper of a course I am taking called "Understanding Cultures and Worldviews." The goal is to accurately understand the worldviews of atheists and agnostics in terms of social structures, ontology, epistemology, and axiology (ethics) and describe said worldviews in their own words. My undergraduate degree is in philosophy (with an anthropology minor) from the University of South Carolina. My master's paper will be an exegetical project on the book of Hebrews.
Atheism is not a culture.
I agree and yet, from the point of view of someone who lives with a supernatural hole in their reality, our worldview must seem very alien.
(March 1, 2018 at 12:42 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(March 1, 2018 at 12:45 am)Minimalist Wrote: I regard that as just as much bullshittery as the: "I was an atheist until jesus ( or allah ) grabbed my cock," routine.
Not only are they full of shit but they are also terribly unoriginal.
I was an atheist until...
Wait! I still am!
And I don't have s cock for Jesus/Allah to grab. (Is that why religions seem to fear women?)
Well obviously you can't serve in the god place if you have no god handle.
(March 1, 2018 at 1:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Jesusism is dying out.
Would you like fries with that?
(March 1, 2018 at 7:17 pm)Hammy Wrote: A Christian who kudosed my post about annilingus......... how can THAT be a true Christian?! Lol.
I call POE!
(March 1, 2018 at 3:20 pm)stretch3172 Wrote:(March 1, 2018 at 12:59 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Most don't assume there is no god, we just go with what the evidence tells us.
Since nothing supernatural has ever been proven to exist then anything that requires the supernatural to be a thing is a t best unproven but more likely complete hogwash.
That's a fair point. But consider this: our five senses are obviously quite limited compared to those of other animals. Similarly, all quantitative, empirical measurements must be based on a limited number of significant figures because our scientific instruments are only accurate to a certain mathematical degree. There's no problem with going in favor of evidence, but our "evidence" is based on our extremely limited means of perceiving reality. To believe in spiritual reality is simply to believe that something exists that transcends our ability to perceive it by natural means. Sure, that's not a proof in itself, but you could argue that it's likely.
*My bold*
But to use the possibility that there is more to reality than our sensory/cognitive arrays can sift out .. to justify believing in just one outlandish thing in particular out of all the outlandish things people have ever believed. That seems like some pretty reckless believing, no disrespect intended. Then to decide -with your still limited sensory/cognitive arrays- that a particular book carries an important message from that very outlandish thing, complete with marching orders for how to live your life. Boy, for a guy as smart as you that must be difficult to swallow.
