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Before We Discuss Whether God Exists, I Have A Question
RE: Before We Discuss Whether God Exists, I Have A Question
(March 6, 2018 at 5:41 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Jenny A. raises the issue of intellectual honesty. Her question tacitly assumes that there are absolute truths, since if there were no absolute truths then one could be neither honest nor dishonest. I’ll leave it at that.

It does assume that there is or isn't god.  I'd be interested to know if you think there is a third possibility?  Doubt about which answer is correct is certainly possible. The question is do you want to make your choice the answer that is most likely to be true  even if that turns out to that there is no god.  

If not, and you are a relative of mine likely to be distressed by the conversation, and believe me, conversations between close relatives about a God some of them believe in and some of them don't can be distressing, then I don't want to have the conversation with you.

I continue to be amused at the number of Christians who are not my relatives, who both want to play, but are unwilling to say that little sentence.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Before We Discuss Whether God Exists, I Have A Question - by Jenny A - March 6, 2018 at 6:21 pm

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