RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
March 12, 2013 at 12:54 am
Well, science acknowledges the human origin of its categories of objectivity and truth. You may argue against the claims of religion, present counter evidence against religion, but if religious belief is true, you must admit that the belief takes on a completely different character.
Even the Bible itself though does not really stress an objective, culturally defined law. Christianity is really more about the collective supernatural experience of the people of God being transformed not according to cultural traditions but according to spiritual experience. I can assure you that spiritual experience is nothing at all like the process of constructing an epistemology. You may guess that it is, and that I am lying, but you can't prove it.
If Christianity is true, the cognitive faculties are reliable though. It is not self refuting, the faculties being unreliable is contingent on naturalism.
Even the Bible itself though does not really stress an objective, culturally defined law. Christianity is really more about the collective supernatural experience of the people of God being transformed not according to cultural traditions but according to spiritual experience. I can assure you that spiritual experience is nothing at all like the process of constructing an epistemology. You may guess that it is, and that I am lying, but you can't prove it.
If Christianity is true, the cognitive faculties are reliable though. It is not self refuting, the faculties being unreliable is contingent on naturalism.
