RE: Is “love” significant?
July 10, 2014 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2014 at 4:18 pm by Mudhammam.)
(July 10, 2014 at 12:39 pm)ShaMan Wrote:(July 9, 2014 at 6:38 am)Esquilax Wrote: I don't buy this idea that just because love is a chemical arrangement in my brain, my experience of it is somehow devalued, or different from anyone else's.Couldn't a theist use this exact argument (about one's experience of consciousness) to validate their own religious experiences also
...any theist who feels they have a license to scoff at the legitimacy of my emotions because of my belief about gods is an asshole.
No, because no one doubts that religious people genuinely have profound emotional experiences--it's their unjustified metaphysical claims attached to them that we rightfully mock.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
