(October 28, 2013 at 8:35 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(October 28, 2013 at 5:59 pm)GodsRevolt Wrote: I'm not sure where the disconnect between the arguments is.
God is all powerful and thoughtful with the design of the universe, why would He not be able to come down and as great man and also be able to give believers great experiences?
The Purple Space Monkey is all powerful and thoughtful with the design of the universe, why would It not be able to come down as an invisible fairy and put happy-bubbles in the soul believers so they can do the Monkey Dance of Joy?
See the problem? I've just made up a bunch of stuff. Whether I believe in it, or whether I can convince a billion others to believe their experiences are related to it, is irrelevant.
MindForgedManacle's original post to which I was responding claimed that the arguments made by Christians can not be taken together. The claim that there was a disconnect between the first set of arguments and the last two.
I was asking for clarification on this point. He made no case as to the fact that it was made-up and therefor irrelevant.
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
