(June 18, 2012 at 6:31 am)FallentoReason Wrote: A couple have been doing 'missionary' work to, what seems like, promote this new movement called New Theism.Oh, goodie. They took the same bullshit, stuffed it into little condoms and put instructions in the package to eat them whole.
New Theists are not believers; we’re evidentialists. We value scientific, historic, and cross-cultural evidence over ancient texts, religious dogma, or ecclesiastical authority. We also value how an evidential worldview enriches and deepens our communion with God (Reality/Ultimate Wholeness/The Great Mystery).
New Theists are not supernaturalists; we’re naturalists. We are inspired and motivated more by this world and this life than by promises of a future otherworld or afterlife. This does not, however, mean that we diss uplifting or transcendent experiences, or disvalue mystery. We don’t. But neither do we see the mystical as divorced from the natural.
http://metanexus.net/blog/new-theism-she...dium=email
Quote:Would any of you consider yourselves to fit these descriptions? Anything you disagree with about this whole thing?
One would have to be fucking stupid to buy into this. the same kind of stupid it takes to buy into any of the swarm of "new, improved", repackaged "Yo dawg" snake oils
...and other bullshit like Lame-Ass Craig's "reasonable faith" con game.
If it was reasonable, if it was based in evidence, it wouldn't be "faith".
More regurgitated superstition for the fucking stupid.
