RE: urge to pray - advice/help
February 13, 2012 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2012 at 12:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 13, 2012 at 12:37 pm)brotherlylove Wrote:(February 13, 2012 at 12:25 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The grounds for me saying it is you using it as an argument. Sure, I don't believe it, but when you use an argument for your religion that works just as easily against it, I will us it against you.
It's not even an argument for my religion, it is simply what Christians believe and have always believed, and what the jews believed before that. It's surprising that atheists don't know that. I am simply saying that my worldview has an explanation for the genuine supernatural experiences that other people have. You can claim trickster Gods or flying purple unicorns or whatever you want, but you don't actually have any grounds for it, so it is not a persausive argument.
The other half of the equation is that if a good God exists, the deception could only be limited. The truth is available to know who God is..and if God is good that is offered to anyone. So, you could not be endlessly deceived in this paradigm.
We didn't invoke the trickster, you did. Now you don't like tricksters because you've realized how childish an attempt at explanation the trickster is. I bolded the portion of your statement that you should re-read..slowly.
There is no other half, that is part of the trick.
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