RE: Open discussion of the Christian Why We're Here thread
May 7, 2018 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2018 at 1:18 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 7, 2018 at 1:05 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 7, 2018 at 12:48 pm)Hammy Wrote: And this is why I say the crucial difference is that he's wrong.
It's natural to always feel that we are right, and the other wrong, but those feelings are not always reliable. I think it is a bit naive to build one's incensed feeling that the other is wrong into some greater conclusion. If your only reason for your animosity toward Neo is because you feel he is wrong in his generalizations, then I suspect you are not on particularly solid ground.
Of course, the feelings that we are right is not what makes us right... and I say "us" because we both think this... so let's not pretend that you don't think he is wrong about atheism being ignorant of God just as much as I do. Why do feelings have anything to do with it (for starters, perhaps especially in my case: WHAT feelings?)... there are reasons why atheists are not ignorant by disbelieving in a load of fairy tails, yes? Where did I ever say "I'm right because I feel I am"? Nowhere, that's where (ironically you seem to merely feel that I feel that because I didn't actually say it anywhere): you and me both think we're right and he's wrong and we don't think it because we have a hunch or because we can't handle The Truth or any of that bullcrap. We think we're right because we have rational reasons to believe that modern theism isn't worth taking seriously any more than ancient theism or mythology. And Neo doesn't take any of the other gods seriously for exactly the same reasons... we just go one god further.
