(February 25, 2012 at 11:56 am)Rhythm Wrote: Just drawing the quote you posted into the overall fold of the convo. The varied personal gods (they're all very personal when you put the shovel to the earth) are definitely terrifying in their breadth and possibility. Nonetheless, it isn't impossible to show the fundy that their very personal god is a very personal con. Would you say that the motivations of the fundy in question create the god that might compel the same fundy to whatever action we fear?
Sure it's impossible to show a fundamentalist that. Tell me, if you found yourself aboard the fated flight with Mohammed Atta, and you told him his god only existed in his head, you would still be dead wouldn't you? If however his god didn't exist only in his head, he would never have been piloting that plane.
