RE: The meaninglessness of the Christian god concept
November 17, 2011 at 4:38 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2011 at 4:40 am by fr0d0.)
Religion is based on empiricism? lol. Care to back up that with evidence tango?
WE are a materialist culture. The ancient cultures of the middle east absolutely were not. A non spiritual world view was unheard of back then, everything was considered in relation to the supernatural, and it's only us with our materialist only POV that have to try and understand what they said in materialist terms. All the evidence supports this.
Only a supernatural being can know empirically about supernatural reality... something it seems that 99% of atheists (including all the others participating in this thread) don't get. Well done on that point (pedantry unintended).
We can't know the supernatural empirically, but we can rationally deduce it non empirically. The aincients never described the spiritual empirically, and I'd like you to stump up examples of that.
Aincient peoples didn't always get it right, sure. We can dismiss them as myth. Rationally discordant ideas are not limited to modern times.
WE are a materialist culture. The ancient cultures of the middle east absolutely were not. A non spiritual world view was unheard of back then, everything was considered in relation to the supernatural, and it's only us with our materialist only POV that have to try and understand what they said in materialist terms. All the evidence supports this.
Only a supernatural being can know empirically about supernatural reality... something it seems that 99% of atheists (including all the others participating in this thread) don't get. Well done on that point (pedantry unintended).
We can't know the supernatural empirically, but we can rationally deduce it non empirically. The aincients never described the spiritual empirically, and I'd like you to stump up examples of that.
Aincient peoples didn't always get it right, sure. We can dismiss them as myth. Rationally discordant ideas are not limited to modern times.
