(August 12, 2013 at 6:15 pm)Texas Sailor Wrote:(August 12, 2013 at 5:08 pm)whateverist Wrote: Why look at what I found. A thank you note from Fr0d0. You are so very welcome, Christian friend.
I read the first two pages and then skipped to this page. (If anything of interest came up in between, somebody please let me know.)
Like you I have no verifiable evidence for things I believe in, like myself. Science can't yet tell me how the 3 pounds of meat in my cranium produces consciousness or stitches together the narrative from which I garner my identity. Nonetheless, like you, I do trudge along in faith that I am someone .. verifiable or not.
If my brain can produce "me" I see no reason why yours can't also produce "god". That would of course mean that, if indeed God exists for you at all, I would assume He is in your head. I just wouldn't think of that as something derogatory.
I think that has to be the nicest way anyone has ever told a Christian that God is all in their head.
But lots of great stuff exists in ones' head. Morality, altruism, generosity, beauty, kindness, love, friendship and, yes, even humor. If "I" exist only in my head, at least I am in some pretty good company. I think it makes a perfectly fine place to posit God, though one might have to let go of a few omni's. What's left over might still be some pretty good company.
