(May 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm)Kingpin Wrote: OK, reaching out to my agnostic/atheist friends. I'm very curious, genuinely interested, are there are "arguments" that theists have provided for proof of a God's existence (not even the Christian God), that you found compelling? Or caused you to pause and perhaps say, there might be A God out there?
I found that when it's all broken down in most debates, an agnostic/atheist boils down to moral arguments/judgments against God, which in and of themselves does not disprove there being a God per se. Just that they refuse to accept a God they find reprehensible.
I find that there are a lot of shitty arguments and unjustified confidence on both sides. I've not met what I consider to be a necessarily valid argument against the existence of God, or a god, but what passes for arguments for the existence of God, or a god, tend to be even worse. I don't believe, but I lean toward the spiritual. In the past I've found solace in Taoism and Hindu belief. I am recommitting to my Taoist beliefs these days, but I'm aligned with Hume that any book (or doctrine) which contains metaphysics should be consigned to the flames. Reason is the only true light, and the further into the weeds we go, the more likely we are to end up lost, arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Those who lose their way
Are lost.
― Tao The Ching, Ch. 23
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