RE: The nearness to God factor. How do Atheists feel about moving higher or lower?
April 21, 2014 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2014 at 11:38 am by Cyberman.)
(April 20, 2014 at 6:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Hi
When I think of people that are really good people, I have sense they are nearer to God then others. I also feel we can move closer to God. I feel there is stages and that these stages are real, that we really move closer or further from God by how our hearts of souls move through out lives influenced by how we act and react.
Bolding mine to demonstrate where you palmed a card. What you feel to be true is irrelevant; what you can demonstrate to be true is the key.
(April 20, 2014 at 6:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Taking away God, what do Atheists feel they gravitate towards?
Atheists? No idea. Me personally? Towards being the best human I know how to be.
(April 20, 2014 at 6:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Goodness has no metaphysical existence to draw closer to from an Atheistic perspective, so while we may become more good, we are not moving closer to anything really or am I missing something?
You're missing something.
(April 20, 2014 at 6:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Do you still feel there is stages of higher and lower if we take God out of the picture?
First show that "God" is in the picture, then we can talk.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
