RE: A Believer's Thoughts on Faith
July 6, 2022 at 10:13 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2022 at 10:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yet another thing not all atheists agree on. It's a shame that nutbars want to constantly hassle you, for example, with my position...a shame, and wasted effort. Not that their efforts would be more productive if they did take that up directly with me or people like me - which might explain why they contain themselves to people they interpret to be undecided- as if a person would just fall into their religion..like gravity, should they come to believe that a god does exist.
The fullest (or traditional, I guess?) expression of religion surrounds what we think is true - not the set of things that we think can't be proven false. I think this avenue of debate is one expression of the change in contemporary religion that witchdoctors are always complaining about when they swirl the drain of nominal christianity in their own flocks. The general idea is that..sure..there's an element of faith to confidence in gods plan - but that it's existence is (or should be conceived of as) provable - and demonstrably proven. The trouble here is that provable things are, by default, disprovable. The mistake..at least on their part and some good number of their critics, is believing that their claims to normative principles - what their religions actually are - are somehow damaged or invalidated in the event that their conceptually provable god is proven false.
The fullest (or traditional, I guess?) expression of religion surrounds what we think is true - not the set of things that we think can't be proven false. I think this avenue of debate is one expression of the change in contemporary religion that witchdoctors are always complaining about when they swirl the drain of nominal christianity in their own flocks. The general idea is that..sure..there's an element of faith to confidence in gods plan - but that it's existence is (or should be conceived of as) provable - and demonstrably proven. The trouble here is that provable things are, by default, disprovable. The mistake..at least on their part and some good number of their critics, is believing that their claims to normative principles - what their religions actually are - are somehow damaged or invalidated in the event that their conceptually provable god is proven false.
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