RE: Why God doesn't stop satan?
June 20, 2021 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2021 at 1:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 19, 2021 at 9:01 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Oh.. you don't like God being outside of space and time? That's cute.
And it would be an absolute breakthrough in philosophy if you can establish that a being outside of space and time is impotent.
These are just your claims, you have no evidence that God (or anything else) exists in another imaginary dimension.
In fact, these are just ridiculous ad hoc excuses to explain the nonexistence of your God. You can make anything exist by making these excuses.
Like Carl Sagan and his claim to have a dragon in his garage. As an example of skeptical thinking, Sagan offers a story concerning a fire-breathing dragon who lives in his garage. When he persuades a rational, open-minded visitor to meet the dragon, the visitor remarks that they are unable to see the creature. Sagan replies that he "neglected to mention that she's an invisible dragon". The visitor suggests spreading flour on the floor so that the creature's footprints might be seen, which Sagan says is a good idea, "but this dragon floats in the air". When the visitor considers using an infrared camera to view the creature's invisible fire, Sagan explains that her fire is heatless. You'll spray-paint the dragon and make her visible.`Good idea, except she's an incorporeal dragon and the paint won't stick.'
So what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, God living in an imaginary dimension and no God at all?
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"
