RE: God can make infinitely more special/valuable things than this universe
November 24, 2018 at 9:04 am
(November 24, 2018 at 8:54 am)Belaqua Wrote:(November 24, 2018 at 8:40 am)Brian37 Wrote: Nope sorry, you do not get to blame me for reacting to the parameters I am not claiming merely for responding to crappy logic.
You might as well be arguing, " How do you know why Santa gives you presents or puts coal in your stocking since you are not Santa."
Maybe I'm not understanding you. Let me put it another way.
Do you find this syllogism sound?
~ If there were a good God, X, Y, and Z would happen.
~ X, Y, and Z don't happen.
~ Therefore, there isn't a good God.
The trouble I see with this is that we have no way of knowing if the initial premise is true. We can say what we prefer, or we can say what we think we would do in his shoes, but there is no way for us to know, really.
But if my logic is bad here please let me know. I may be mischaracterizing your argument.
Is Allah true to you by default?
Is Vishnu true to you by default?
Is Apollo true to you by default?
Am I dating Angelina Jolie because I like the idea true by default?
I had a syllogism once, but went to the doctor, got a shot for it and it cleared up.
What would be so bad if you found out this was it? I do not fear a fictional afterlife anymore than I fear life was like 4 billion years ago when I also did not exist.
Good logic does not presume a gap answer from the start. Good logic is based on prior CONFIRMED data beyond personal bias.
It makes much more sense to me that humans are merely projecting their own qualities in fictional form. Much like a dog or cat can confuse it's reflection in the mirror as being a separate real thing.
I'd rather spend my life accepting my finite existence as it is, without postulating superstition in as a gap answer.