RE: Why do christians think god communicates with warm fuzzy feelings instead of direct verbal speach?
December 3, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Drich Wrote:How do you know the universe does not extend beyond what you and people like you understand it to be and set limits on? Do you often claim the "Earth is flat" much? Same principle.
Such unbridled absurdity. Those are two entirely different principles.
To claim that the universe has facets beyond which we understand is bad enough, because you can show no evidence of this, but you further claim that the universe definitely does have facets beyond which we understand and you insist that you do access it, that your specific ideal of God resides in it, that you understand his will and that you enact that will accurately.
Appealing to an imaginary extra-universal plane of existence only weakens your position because even if you convinced us that the conditions necessary for God's existence were possible (in this case, the existence of extraplanar domains in which sentient beings reside by means unfathomable to us), you would weaken the credibility of Yahweh by making the possibility of his existence as equally-likely as all other deities, gods, demigods, demons, angels, monsters, ghosts, known, unknown or (to be completely fair) imaginable... which is just as problematic because Yahweh insists that he is the only true God, and it would now have to be proven that his story is more credible than any other of a thousand competing creation myths. You think you escape the noose of the appeal to infinitesimal odds only to find Yahweh crowded out both by the number of competitors and his (unprovable) insistence that he is the highest and singular superior to everything in the universe, that no real advantage to you results because you are, in fact, appealing to even longer odds than ever.
