RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs?
November 16, 2018 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2018 at 10:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We're all laboring under at least a few illusory beliefs or concepts. If that were the reason that theism were problematic than we could see those same problems in all other examples of illusory beliefs or concepts - but we don't. While the belief in such a god is nothing more or less than the affirmation of the illusory.....it's the fact that this particular illusion is an echo chamber for all of our basest compulsions that makes it problematic.
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