RE: Comfort in Faith at Death
July 8, 2019 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2019 at 11:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
As an interesting aside, Christianity picked up its antitheist ( or maltheist, if we prefer) undercurrents in the assumption of Greek thought - wherein the intervening divine persons could be thought of as capricious and it’s belief detrimental to humanity.
This gets compartmentalized, ofc, like so many other thoughts in the set. -Those- gods and belief in - those- gods is bad, not ours....but it’s difficult to find any of those arguments against belief in other gods that don’t fundamentally apply to belief in any fundamentally similar god.
You haven’t disagreed with any antitheist contention yet, shell. You disagreed with something that antitheism wasnt.
This thread literally began with you mentioning that the reason you weren’t an antitheist was.......
.........?
This gets compartmentalized, ofc, like so many other thoughts in the set. -Those- gods and belief in - those- gods is bad, not ours....but it’s difficult to find any of those arguments against belief in other gods that don’t fundamentally apply to belief in any fundamentally similar god.
You haven’t disagreed with any antitheist contention yet, shell. You disagreed with something that antitheism wasnt.
This thread literally began with you mentioning that the reason you weren’t an antitheist was.......
.........?
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