Nobody who claims knowledge of God is justified in their assertion.
Just because there is a chance they may be correct doesn't justufy belief without evidence, especially in the case of a God that gets shredded by Occam's razor. There had been no God in the history of the word that is the most likely hypothesis in a set of beings that created worlds.
Oh, and the argument from degree is one of the oldest and most pathetic arguments in the books. We don't "know" there to be a being of ultimate greatness. It isn't necessary for there to be an ultimate being at all.
Just because there is a chance they may be correct doesn't justufy belief without evidence, especially in the case of a God that gets shredded by Occam's razor. There had been no God in the history of the word that is the most likely hypothesis in a set of beings that created worlds.
Oh, and the argument from degree is one of the oldest and most pathetic arguments in the books. We don't "know" there to be a being of ultimate greatness. It isn't necessary for there to be an ultimate being at all.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
