RE: Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
April 21, 2014 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2014 at 3:28 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 21, 2014 at 2:47 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: That would be a more semantically slick way of substituting a specific God for a generic God-of-the-gaps, but it's still a get out of jail free card: the theist gets to dump ALL of their dogma, all of their believed qualities of their particular deity, the tenants of the religion, hey, *poof* it's now assumed Jesus was in fact their Deity/his son, and now the bible is definitely true.
It never stops at "I dunno :. God," there's the inevitable scuffling sound of the theist sneaking their God and all his paraphernalia in through the back door.
If they're Catholic, suddenly we assume Demonic Possession, miracles and saints. They take a little more time to round up and sneak through the back door, but they "don't need" any additional justification to get to them.
I edited the previous post a lot, initially proposing "the god", then the phrase "the real god".
It could be an intervening god or a god of the gaps. They could claim that people everywhere have witnessed Yahweh's interventions even though they believed the real god that performed these miracles was Wadjet or Zeus.
(April 21, 2014 at 2:41 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:(April 21, 2014 at 12:30 am)fr0d0 Wrote: No I believe that God intervenes and leaves evidence. I believe all humans are aware of him. He let's nature take it's course. Sure. Nothing wrong with that.
Except for the contradictory nature of the two bolded parts, I guess.
He has a point, fr0d0. To let nature take its course is to abstain from intervening.
Intervention - The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events. --Wordnik
If God does intervene, why doesn't he intervene to stop child rape? Why does he have a special exception for child rape?
