The absolute absurdity of God

[LadyForCamus]

LadyC, I know you directed this reply to SteveII so I hope you don’t mind my addressing this point.

SteveII is very good at presenting a wide swath of observations that Christians believe support their faith and serve as evidence for it, such as historicity of the New Testament, changed lives, and cosmological arguments. These are all fine and good, though I suspect that few unbelievers find apologetics sufficient to positively convince him or her that the claims of the Christianity are true.

The value of the believers’ list of evidences, IMHO, is revealed in the very word apologetics -  from the original Greek meaning “speaking in defense”. The arguments serve, in part, as defense against objections to the sacred doctrines of special revelation held by faith. More than anything they remove barriers to belief. The question for believers is not whether there is empirical evidence or compelling logical proof that Christianity is true; but rather, if it is rational to believe that the articles of faith accurately reflect the highly individual and personal sense that there is something Divine calling out to your innermost being.

I submit to you that at least some people, perhaps not all, feel a profound sensus divinitatis (No, not divine ta-tas, that’s another discussion) that requires religious explanation and which in the absence of defeaters is rational to accept as indicative of important truths about reality.

Always a pleasure hearing your thoughts, Neo.

How could one even go about offering defeaters to an falsifiable, subjective experience like sensus divinitatus? Just because I can’t demonstrate such a feeling isn’t the lord calling to you, that doesn’t mean it’s rational for you to believe that it is.  Can you honestly say that you have ruled out every natural explaination for this spiritual yearning to the conclusion that a divine sense is the most well-supported and most likely cause?  What about people who don’t feel it?