(September 23, 2019 at 8:28 pm)Lek Wrote:Yes it is a fallacy and no it is not evidence.(September 23, 2019 at 8:03 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Yet you and all those billions of people have “revelations” about gods that are entirely mutually exclusive. I just listened to a Christian describe a revelation by god who told him he was not omniscient, or omnipotent, so how do we figure out who’s right? Also, appealing to the number of people who believe something is a fallacy, which has been pointed out to you several times by several people.You can't dismiss it as a fallacy. Testimony of large numbers of people is evidence.
Large numbers of people on board with an idea creates a certain ... momentum if you will. Because we're hyper-social creatures, who want to belong, and fear not belonging, it is a powerful incentive to share the belief. But that in no way makes the belief substantiated or correct.
(September 23, 2019 at 8:28 pm)Lek Wrote: As I stated before, people having different descriptions of an indescribable entity isn't strange. Our various ideas and images of God are vehicles that help us go to him. And no, God doesn't have to give us all the same image of him, since any image we have could not describe him.
That is an incoherent argument. If a thing isn't describable then ANY description is meaningless AND pointless. If god's ways are "past finding out" then that isn't coherent with the notion that he desires some sort of "relationship" with people. If god is ineffable then nothing can be said about him. At a minimum, if ideas or images of god are 100% unique to an individual then they should never be discussed with others. Really what you're saying is that your ideas about god need have no correspondence to anything not in between your own ears. You can just make it up as you go and call it revelation.
