Why all "Logical Proofs Of God" fail ...
March 10, 2014 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2014 at 2:49 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(March 10, 2014 at 1:15 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 10, 2014 at 11:53 am)Bad Writer Wrote: Believing something without proper evidence is the most dishonest position you can possibly take in any walk of life.Then I guess that makes you dishonest, unless you have a complete and internally consistent understanding of reality.
Empiricism is the only internally and externally consistent method of understanding reality. Lots of people have internally consistent but externally inconsistent beliefs about reality. Usually they reside in mental wards.
Really, your poorly stuffed and unconvincing strawmen are tiresome and insipid.
The only people claiming to have a "complete and internally consistent understanding of reality" are religious folks, and they're lying on multiple levels.
(March 10, 2014 at 1:15 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 10, 2014 at 12:12 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Faith is by definition an irrational belief still strongly held.Don’t be a clown! Faith is not a type of belief; but rather, the stance you take in the absence of certainty. For example, if you believe that other people have minds, then you do so in faith, because there is absolutely no way to know for certain. Claims to the contrary already assume what they try to prove.
There you go again, making your own definitions for words.
Main Entry: 1faith
Pronunciation: \ˈfāth\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural faiths \ˈfāths, sometimes ˈfāthz\
Etymology: Middle English feith, from Anglo-French feid, fei, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust — more at bide
Date: 13th century
1 a : allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty b (1) : to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions 2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust 3 : something that is believed especially with strong conviction ; especially : a system of religious beliefs <the Protestant faith>
http://i.word.com/idictionary/faith