RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
November 12, 2024 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2024 at 12:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The beginning of your post is at odds with it's end. OFC you can do things in the name of theism..must, in fact, do things. That deism can be normatively neutral does not have an effect on theism which cannot be, and is by definition more than just the belief in god - but a belief in a particular kind of god which will by it's mere invocation engender normative content.
Theistic gods are personal and intervening. The gods personality and the content of it's intervention are the religious overlay to the superstitious belief.
An interesting note here is that theism likely contains the seeds of it's own demise (in any given form). Once we attempt to circumscribe all normative content or situations in the univserse through the lens of personal intervention we will inevitably fail to capture the fullness and range of normative consequences in said universe. This instantiates itself in the world through endless revision and with respect to the pile of gods and what normative statements they represent in the dustbin of history. Our own perceptual and normative failures are baked in, in addition to the belief set failing to accurately describe the world we are so often wrong in - the whole enterprise being devoted to the shape of being right.
Theistic gods are personal and intervening. The gods personality and the content of it's intervention are the religious overlay to the superstitious belief.
An interesting note here is that theism likely contains the seeds of it's own demise (in any given form). Once we attempt to circumscribe all normative content or situations in the univserse through the lens of personal intervention we will inevitably fail to capture the fullness and range of normative consequences in said universe. This instantiates itself in the world through endless revision and with respect to the pile of gods and what normative statements they represent in the dustbin of history. Our own perceptual and normative failures are baked in, in addition to the belief set failing to accurately describe the world we are so often wrong in - the whole enterprise being devoted to the shape of being right.
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