RE: Four questions for Christians
July 8, 2013 at 12:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2013 at 12:39 am by evenheathen.)
(July 8, 2013 at 12:13 am)Consilius Wrote: The concept itself is logically impossible.
Funny, you can understand it when applied to simple thought experiments. But when it comes to god, it escapes you that your answer right here is why atheists exist.
The application of rational, logical thought is what deconverts believers every day. As a thinking christian, you have to jump through so many cognitive hoops to rationalize the major fallacy that a true belief in YHWH is. With so much evidence pointing to the fact that the creation of the idea of the abrahamic god is just a culmination of so many false beliefs preceding it, it's a wonder that anyone takes this seriously anymore.
Could there be a god, a higher existence, a creative force? Sure....maybe.
But the iron age war god is not a plausible candidate for such a position. Sorry.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret is as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco