RE: The pope has a pacemaker
February 13, 2013 at 5:22 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2013 at 5:27 am by Violet.)
(February 12, 2013 at 5:33 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It's regarded as something of a lack of faith, whether or not that is what it really is. It's on the same lines as the Pope installing himself behind two inches of bulletproof glass whenever he's wheeled out in public, or churches in general having lightning conductors running up the side. A bit "practise what you preach". Atheist humour - don't worry about it.
And I understand that point in the humor of it... regardless: of all the black jokes I make, how many of them reflect reality? Other than the grape drink thing, obviously
I don't worry about the humor, I'm with that. I worry when people start thinking this is a serious argument against X creator. Now... if they were Amish: having a pacemaker would be fucking hilarious.
(February 12, 2013 at 5:41 pm)Chuck Wrote: Because the development of science and technology points overwhelmingly to a reality incompatible to centrality of god.
Explain how, please? Because way I see it: regardless of our technological prowess, God is metaphysical.
Quote:A religionist is either stupid, or disingenuious, or both, if he avails himself the benefit that something that was only made to work because of the strength of the world view which expells god from centrality, while clinging ostentatiously via words to the centrality of god.
Science is not a position on theism, nor a stance is it... those are wholly independent. Sure, scientists are typically atheists or deists... but there are theistic scientists too. The centrality of a god in a philosophical worldview does not make one incapable of the scientific method.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
