RE: Are Atheists using Intellectually Dishonest Arguments?
March 19, 2018 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2018 at 12:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What I'm trying to highlight is that if we -did- take it at face value all we see is that the miracles of "christ" were no more compelling to the "christians" than yahwehs miracles were to the hebrews. They both immediately set about fashioning some object of worship other than god.
Even in everyday life..how often do we see someone born again...someone who believes they witnessed some life altering miracle..fall right back into their previous patterns of behavior - or never change them in the first place? It seems like this would be silly, or unrealistic..but in actually -we're- silly and unrealistic, this is something we do. The overall context is the religious.. a demographic already inclined to the silly and unrealistic...and in that light it's not even remarkable for it's silliness. Just more of the same.
Even in everyday life..how often do we see someone born again...someone who believes they witnessed some life altering miracle..fall right back into their previous patterns of behavior - or never change them in the first place? It seems like this would be silly, or unrealistic..but in actually -we're- silly and unrealistic, this is something we do. The overall context is the religious.. a demographic already inclined to the silly and unrealistic...and in that light it's not even remarkable for it's silliness. Just more of the same.
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