RE: Atheism: hatred of God ideology
December 22, 2012 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2012 at 12:55 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 22, 2012 at 9:12 am)Dr.Barré Wrote: It posits that God is Existence. This deification of Existence is warranted by the vastness and complexity of the cosmos. Hence, Pantheism.
If God is Existence, then the denial of God is a denial of Existence.
How are you defining 'deification of existence'? What attributes, other than the attributes already known about the universe, do you deem worthy of deification?
I am in awe of the beauty, complexity, vastness, mystery of the universe. Does that define me as a pantheist?
We don't need another definition for existence. The one we have is more than adequate.
Quote:That God is a ficitional being is an unsupported and therefore worthless proposition.
You are in agreement with every atheist here.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
