(October 31, 2013 at 11:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Until and unless theism can point to a phenomenon or group of phenomena for which no naturalistic explanation is possible, it leaves theism as an unreasonable belief.I don't know if theism IS unreasonable, unless you're forcing its tenets on others. People feel what they feel, and I know very reasonable religious people who just can't shake their very strong feeling of a deity. That I don't share that feeling is neither here nor there as to the feeling's reasonableness.
It's fine for me to say that theism is unreasonable FOR ME. It's also fine for me to say that it is unreasonable for you to push your beliefs into my private life, or into political action. But I don't think I can say that theism is flat-out unreasonable, because I can't tell people what they feel, or should feel.
