RE: The Trap of Pure Rationalism
December 3, 2011 at 1:02 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2011 at 1:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Assuming, in this case, only makes an ass out of you.
Apparently we don't have an innate sense that murder is wrong. Que war. Que murder. Some of us, or perhaps even most of us, feel that murder is wrong (sometimes). That's what you'd expect from highly social animals. What does that have to do with god? Not a damned thing.
There's already a great thread on "revelation" to the tune of "how can you know that it is god, and not the devil" revealing anything to you? Search function.
Here's my logical reason. Because neither you, nor any other believer have ever given me a single shred of evidence in support of the existence of god, and I've never heard so much as a compelling argument, let alone a valid or sound argument, for the existence of said god. Combine this with the mountains of evidence that we have for fairy tales, superstition, and just general ignorance in the area of religion. Also, the compelling, sound, and valid arguments that conclude that your god is, at best (and if he even exists in any way), not what you describe him to be. In short, if you're insinuating that there is some logic or reason to your claims of god, then perhaps you should look into deism; an equally useless but much more well thought out claim to the divine
Here's the thing, I was just being nice when I offered this up. I don't have to, because I'm not claiming that something exists. You have a burden to meet, we have two threads entitled "evidence for the existence of god", now get to work. Make your own case, and stop asking garbage questions (the same garbage questions that we hear every fucking day btw) as though if you were to somehow find your "gotcha" moment we would magically be left with nothing but your god as an authority, or an explanation.
How about you give us a logical reason why you believe in god? Don't say "Because he told me too"...because that assumes the answer. "Revelation" is a fucking joke, and if you are hearing voices in your head that cannot be explained(or have heard these voices in the past), you need to seek professional help.
Apparently we don't have an innate sense that murder is wrong. Que war. Que murder. Some of us, or perhaps even most of us, feel that murder is wrong (sometimes). That's what you'd expect from highly social animals. What does that have to do with god? Not a damned thing.
There's already a great thread on "revelation" to the tune of "how can you know that it is god, and not the devil" revealing anything to you? Search function.
Here's my logical reason. Because neither you, nor any other believer have ever given me a single shred of evidence in support of the existence of god, and I've never heard so much as a compelling argument, let alone a valid or sound argument, for the existence of said god. Combine this with the mountains of evidence that we have for fairy tales, superstition, and just general ignorance in the area of religion. Also, the compelling, sound, and valid arguments that conclude that your god is, at best (and if he even exists in any way), not what you describe him to be. In short, if you're insinuating that there is some logic or reason to your claims of god, then perhaps you should look into deism; an equally useless but much more well thought out claim to the divine
Here's the thing, I was just being nice when I offered this up. I don't have to, because I'm not claiming that something exists. You have a burden to meet, we have two threads entitled "evidence for the existence of god", now get to work. Make your own case, and stop asking garbage questions (the same garbage questions that we hear every fucking day btw) as though if you were to somehow find your "gotcha" moment we would magically be left with nothing but your god as an authority, or an explanation.
How about you give us a logical reason why you believe in god? Don't say "Because he told me too"...because that assumes the answer. "Revelation" is a fucking joke, and if you are hearing voices in your head that cannot be explained(or have heard these voices in the past), you need to seek professional help.
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