(April 19, 2013 at 4:26 pm)Tex Wrote:(April 19, 2013 at 4:51 am)pocaracas Wrote: I quite like this analogy of yours... but let me put my own twist...
The parents/elders tell you a wonderful story about a god to make you behave in a certain way, or else you may have some nasty after-death.
You then investigate and realize that there's no such thing as god, the rationality wins.
This doesn't make your parents/elders completely untrustworthy, but you may think it for a while...
After maturing, you understand why they told you that stuff about god, they just wanted you to behave properly when they weren't around.
Even further down the line, you grow out of it and laugh at yourself for believing such nonsense...
Sadly, some people don't grow out of it...
Haha, I expected this as i wrote it. You're assuming that rationality says God doesn't exist. =p
That is NOT an assumption - rationality DOES say that a "god" as defined by the xtian religion - does not exist.
THERE is simply no possibility that a single being - even with multiple personality disorder - could fulfill ALL of the claims made for the god in the religion - much less the bible alone.
THere are simply too many contradictions and conflicting claims that make the xtian god irrational - as it has always been.
