(June 30, 2022 at 9:29 am)Belacqua Wrote:(June 30, 2022 at 9:22 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: that of which I have no conception
It would be nice if people would hold to this consistently.
Generally when people here say that God is an unbelievable concept, it turns out that they have an extremely clear idea of the God they don't believe in. It's difficult to get across the fact that many influential Christians (not to mention people from other religions) conceive of God very differently from the thing they're arguing against.
In addition, I think that Mr. Bradlaugh was unaware of apophatic theology, which has argued for centuries that God cannot be clearly conceived of. As with the Way, 道, for Taoists, the God that can be defined is not the true God.
I haven't been convinced that any proposed version of God is really real. I'm well aware that there are many ideas of God, as every atheist I know personally is. Some ideas of God have more of an impact on freedom of conscience than others. The 'ground of being' isn't the version of God that has people frothing over someone getting an abortion. Taoists didn't try to get a caveat on our 'State Fossil' that said it was created on the Sixth Day. The God I don't believe in is any god. The God I have to address is the monotheist one that supposedly writes books.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
