RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
February 25, 2023 at 11:45 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2023 at 11:46 pm by Belacqua.)
(February 25, 2023 at 11:12 pm)Objectivist Wrote: If God existed and it was true that there "can't be an object of consciousness separate from him" then God is not conscious.
Right, many theologians agree with you. God is not conscious, in the way that people are conscious. It is a wholly different thing. In fact it would be better not to use the word "conscious" of God.
I understand that a lot of Christians think of God as a big guy in the sky. Their image of God is the kind of thing you describe, and I also reject this view. Also the Neoplatonists (Plotinus, Proclus, Porphyry, Iamblichus) reject this view. Also the Christian theologians who took Neoplatonism into Christianity (Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm, Augustine, Cusanus, etc.) reject this view.
Earlier you said of Christians "No wonder they are afraid of their kids going to college or surfing the web." This is true of a certain subset of Christians, but certainly not all. Christians in fact believe a variety of different things; what you say is true of some but not others.
Quote:Not that I think you or any other Christian will. Christianity has been exposed and you should really warn your fellow Christians not to steal concepts like true, objective, rational, logical, etc. that have in their genetic root the POE.
I'm not a Christian.