RE: Ontological Disproof of God
August 23, 2018 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2018 at 4:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If you want to talk to yourself, no worries. If you want to communicate to others..you might need to work on it.
In any case, as far as god being too dumb to be god;
I'd say that's good as an argument as far as it goes. If some ontological claim precludes incompetence, but the reality on the ground demonstrates incompetence...then the ontological claim is in error...at least. I think that if you added up enough of these negations of specific claims it would amount to a strong case against specific gods, assuming they were all sound.
I don't know that I'd hang my hat on Sartre, though, if I wanted to draw some comment on human determination and how that relates to the ontological status of divinity. It's not going to take a particularly clever apologist to knock this one down. At the bottom of the rabbit hole of arguments a person might field to maintain the ontological claim......there's always the hilarious fact that this argument poses no threat to a bumbling or inept god - of which there have been many. Even a christian apologist, if pressed, can concede that god might have made the odd mistake here and there....and then vomit up chapter and verse to "prove" it.
So, in summary, meh..... far too many words to promise so much and deliver so little?
In any case, as far as god being too dumb to be god;
I'd say that's good as an argument as far as it goes. If some ontological claim precludes incompetence, but the reality on the ground demonstrates incompetence...then the ontological claim is in error...at least. I think that if you added up enough of these negations of specific claims it would amount to a strong case against specific gods, assuming they were all sound.
I don't know that I'd hang my hat on Sartre, though, if I wanted to draw some comment on human determination and how that relates to the ontological status of divinity. It's not going to take a particularly clever apologist to knock this one down. At the bottom of the rabbit hole of arguments a person might field to maintain the ontological claim......there's always the hilarious fact that this argument poses no threat to a bumbling or inept god - of which there have been many. Even a christian apologist, if pressed, can concede that god might have made the odd mistake here and there....and then vomit up chapter and verse to "prove" it.
So, in summary, meh..... far too many words to promise so much and deliver so little?
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