RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 28, 2012 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 8:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The catholic concept of purgatory seems logical to you because you feel that people should have a second chance? I think what you mean to say is that the catholic concept of purgatory fulfills a wishful longing you have about the status of our (after)lives and our ability to "do it over" when we screw up. Maybe I'm wrong though, perhaps you could explain to me where the reason resides in stories of afterlives and purgatory?
The word you keep using, imagining that it qualifies a statement so that it is no longer troubling, is "inherent". It doesn't. It doesn't matter if omniscience is inherent or acquired, this does not have an effect on the troubling aspects of the concept. It does not matter what an omniscient being chooses not to know, as the problem is -what can be known-.
I'm not sure why there's so much resistance on this single, simple little point. We are looking to eliminate the impossible.......right?
The word you keep using, imagining that it qualifies a statement so that it is no longer troubling, is "inherent". It doesn't. It doesn't matter if omniscience is inherent or acquired, this does not have an effect on the troubling aspects of the concept. It does not matter what an omniscient being chooses not to know, as the problem is -what can be known-.
I'm not sure why there's so much resistance on this single, simple little point. We are looking to eliminate the impossible.......right?
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