RE: Let's be biblically literary
September 9, 2019 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2019 at 1:13 am by EgoDeath.)
(September 7, 2019 at 12:49 am)Belaqua Wrote: I have this annoying trait of not knowing what my view is.
All of this seems so difficult, so beyond human confidence, and -- most especially -- so far beyond my own little brain's abilities, that I have yet to know what's really true. I have made good-faith efforts to understand these difficult things as far as I can, yet I have a hell of a lot left to learn.
I think that's what you really want to be true. I think you want it to be true that the question of god cannot be answered. You're what Dawkins called a permanent agnostic in principle. I think you want it to be so that the question cannot be and never will be answered. Therefore, it's a wash! What the theists know is just as good as what the atheists know.
But it isn't a wash. The playing field isn't even. The conversation about god's existence hasn't even started because the evidence has never been brought to the table.
I can't even say the theists are losing because the game hasn't even started. Maybe when they bring some evidence of god to the table, the conversation can start.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.