RE: Why should anyone even want a relationship with God?
January 15, 2013 at 3:07 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2013 at 3:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't have any altars in my home to either.......
Truth be told, I don't spend much time thinking about either person in any case, do you? Perhaps arranging two propositions side by side would help you to understand what I'm driving at.
On the one hand you have a god you owe your life to - call this the deist proposition. You conclude that it is worthy of worship on these grounds alone
On the other you have your parents that you owe your life to -call this the atheist proposition. Do you conclude that they are worthy of worship as above?
If not why not? What is the unspoken difference, and if there is such a difference, was your earlier assessment all that accurate to begin with?
Truth be told, I don't spend much time thinking about either person in any case, do you? Perhaps arranging two propositions side by side would help you to understand what I'm driving at.
On the one hand you have a god you owe your life to - call this the deist proposition. You conclude that it is worthy of worship on these grounds alone
On the other you have your parents that you owe your life to -call this the atheist proposition. Do you conclude that they are worthy of worship as above?
If not why not? What is the unspoken difference, and if there is such a difference, was your earlier assessment all that accurate to begin with?
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