(July 15, 2023 at 11:49 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I honestly don't think you guys need any arguments for your belief. Which is convenient, judging by the quality of the arguments you offer. If you really needed them..if they even mattered to you, in actuality, rather than performatively, you and your gods would all be fucked. Or maybe that's just you burdening god again.
The truly interesting thing, for me, above, is that you've described the experience of being compelled by an argument you don't believe in, premised on a god that cannot exist...and all according to you.
You're right, my reason for believing isn't that some argument is valid and sound. I just hold to an intuition that I find extremely compelling, along the lines of "all this couldn't have come by chance, all this beauty and richness of the world, couldn't have been there without some supreme power". That's it, that's why I believe. It's probably an immediate, perceptual belief.
I don't think I'm capable of articulating this intuition in a 100% completely sound argument. But all I've read from the other side, all the atheistic arguments and reasons for rejecting belief just never shook this intuition.
