RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 26, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: If the earth did have a motive I would despair were it as banal as the one your religion offers (to praise a God that doesn't need it but demands it).
Bingo. You would "despair". This is as I suspected.
(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: First I recognised there was no God.
How did you recognize there was no God?
(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: Then I was relieved.
Bingo again. This is right in line with what I suspected.
(February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am)max-greece Wrote: Then I realized that "the lack of a reason" equated exactly to true freedom.
Bingo again. This is similar to what both Huxley and Nagel say.