RE: Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists?
August 9, 2012 at 10:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 10:25 pm by CliveStaples.)
(August 9, 2012 at 10:12 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Who says existence itself is necessary?
I don't know...?
(August 9, 2012 at 10:21 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Which I as an atheist do not share, so to channel Matt Dillahunty, why should I give a crap?
So you have no position with regard to any of the statements in the survey?
You don't believe that there is anything that has a cause?
(August 9, 2012 at 9:59 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: Which Rasmussen's paper, one of the cornerstones of this survey/test remember, informs us is another term for God. Everything else beyond the point at which I cut off your quote flows from this foundation. On the basis of all this, if you want the most honest answer to this question from me, a permanent atheist - and you do seem really interested in my opinion on this - it would be "no" without hesitation.
It seems like you're unwilling to think through the consequences of your beliefs. That is, you don't want to hear whether your beliefs entail the existence of a Necessary Being, because you think a Necessary Being eventually leads to God, and you don't believe in God.
So you're choosing to remain ignorant, lest you find out that your beliefs entail contradiction.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
