RE: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
November 20, 2021 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2021 at 8:46 pm by Belacqua.)
(November 20, 2021 at 2:23 pm)Alan V Wrote: Now as long as you keep adding more and more of such scientific discoveries, then any God-concept becomes more and more improbable.
I find it odd that in your view, Christians think of God primarily as an explanation for various aspects of the physical universe. This is how atheists discuss the existence of God on the Internet -- on forums like this one, and on Reddit, for example. This is what it's like in our little world. But I don't think it forms a significant part of most Christians' belief.
Have you ever read I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni? It's a splendid novel that every Italian person knows though, oddly, it's not famous in the US. (I heard Umberto Eco recommend it in a speech at the 92nd Street Y.) It describes the lived experience of a large number of people in a culture entirely soaked in Catholic Christianity -- both the good and the bad results. It doesn't include any discussion of how God can serve as an explanation for scientific aspects of the world. The ontological argument plays no role in their lives.
So why you think rational Christians would lose their faith upon hearing that (for example) evolution can occur without the active intervention of a deity is a mystery to me.
Perhaps you think that anyone who continues to believe in God when science advances as it does is just irrational.