RE: Why Atheism is Incoherent & You Aren't as Smart as You Think You Are
March 4, 2021 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2021 at 9:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 3, 2021 at 5:32 pm)Seax Wrote: By God I mean mere the universe; nature, and by God's Will I mean the purpose inherent in nature. Why call that God? Because that is what all the other religions are grasping at when they talk about God.
Wouldn't this also be an exercise in obscuring the truth by reference to dogma? It's just the universe, not a god.
At any rate, atheists don't have any more trouble believing in the universe than they do believing in purpose. I tend to broadly agree with the notion that all human religion is an attempt to describe our sense of the numinous, and that this sense itself is real and natural and can point to other real and natural things - but you've probably got the wrong audience for the rest of it.
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