RE: When is a Religious Belief Delusional?
September 4, 2018 at 1:38 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2018 at 1:40 pm by downbeatplumb.)
(September 4, 2018 at 11:18 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(September 4, 2018 at 10:58 am)MysticKnight Wrote: They claim they know exactly what God would or would not be, and then because of the design and situation we are, they use that to deny him. I will make a thread with ample evidence of this.
Actually nobody - not theists or atheists - knows how to define gods in the first place. What are they? The question could hardly be any simpler, but the answer is strangely elusive. Do you know? I'm not sure I do. People have been so enthralled with gods and religions for so long, many willing to kill and die for them, that this question ought to be considered among the most important of all, yet most people sail right by it and instead obsess over secondary issues such as which gods exist, how we should worship, which book gets it right, and how the gods mean for us to behave.
What makes a god? Are they all supernatural? Are they all immortal? Can all of them fly, or only some? Can they walk through walls? Can they read our thoughts? Do they know the future? Can a god have mental and physical frailties? Can a human become a god? Can a god become a human? What is it that makes someone or something a god in our eyes? What is a god?!
Like you, I find the concept of god so vague as to be useless in any way.
(September 4, 2018 at 1:04 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(September 4, 2018 at 9:06 am)robvalue Wrote: Even if there were moral facts, why would I care about them? Nothing happens if I don't follow them...I'm not going to do something just because it's a "moral fact"; nor will I not do something because it's "factually immoral".This is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time. Nothing happens if you murder? Nothing happens if you molest children? Nothing happens if you rob a bank. Pleas, rob, do everyone a favor and go back to making innane videos.
Bu if you follow the biblical morality you kill MORE people don't you. Biblical morality is worse than some psychopaths.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.