RE: Search for Causes
January 4, 2020 at 2:57 am
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2020 at 2:58 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 3, 2020 at 1:16 pm)Lek Wrote: When atheists look at the world, they look at it as purely one level. How we perceive things is strongly related to our worldview. If God has revealed itself to us we can recognize him in all. This doesn't mean that once we believe then we manufacture his presence. It means that we need to know what we're looking for or we miss it.
First you say we perceive things on our (predicated) worldview but then you claim that you see God despite your beliefs (which are your worldview) and that we need to know what we're looking for and you already said that we perceive things strongly according to our worldview.
So, this is a word salad based on emotions and not logic, from a person that wants to believe. When someone wants to believe they need very little to believe it. That's why we see sentences with shiny words but not much meaning.
And since you're also touching on subject of difference between an atheist and theist, that difference is that theists want to believe, but atheist asks "Why should I believe?"
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
