(March 1, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Rahul Wrote: No one can say I'm being irrational because I don't believe in something that I have no evidence for. I can only live my life based on what I do know.
Not what somebody, somewhere, might, maybe, have evidence for.
Quote:Yes. Because I can just have faith in the Loch Ness monster, or leprechauns, or whatever.
Quote:That doesn't seem very logical. I can just decide to believe in anything without evidence. It would fuck with my head to do it for anything. But there's no reason why your concept of god should have a free pass with "evidence lacking" faith and not something else like the tooth fairy.
Things like leprechauns or loch ness monster are physical. They are of naturally nature, and require the same type of evidence.
When it comes to God, he doesn't simply get a free pass. It's the nature people feel he is.
It feels like this is a spiritual being that we are linked to. It feels like it's part of who we are. That this eternal force has link to all existence.
Furthermore as it's the origin of the universe and has some sort of identity, it is possible there would be a spiritual connection to him and beings would have a universal sense of this being.
Leprechauns are not a universal archetype or anything like that, and there is no humans reporting having faith by spiritual experience.
At least with God there is a human phenomenon where people feel there is a link between them and the Creator.
God being the origin of greatness, morality, justice, he would be more universal archetype to our own existence, and it's plausible we have some knowledge of this because it would be foundational to our existence.
The Creator putting some link and way of knowing of him and connecting with him is not farfetch if he is the ultimate being and humans benefit from connecting to him and knowing him.
While all these are feasible with the Creator, they are not feasible with other things in the universe.
If you are going to say we don't have a link or a way of knowing the God while saying he is possible. I would tell you to think about it. How do you know that?
Suppose he did exist, why does there not seem to be this connection or way of knowing him?
