RE: A particularly annoying exchange: Apparently the Christian God now includes a...
July 22, 2014 at 7:03 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2014 at 7:04 am by ManMachine.)
(July 22, 2014 at 3:53 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Every other God! And therefore no criteria need be provided to distinguish the believer's deity from other deities.
In another group, I asked the question:
What criteria do you use to conclude <my deity> exists, and all other deities are mythology?
They quickly began moving the goal posts:
Which, of course, because I'm questioning his reasonable belief in God: I must be a Dawkins parrot, right?
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It's kind of interesting that the proper translation of the opening words of the Bible are ambiguous. The word specifically used, 'elohiym', has a plural meaning (gods) as well as a singular meaning.
This has always been a matter of some debate among Jewish scholars, perhaps it alludes to an earlier version of the OT that was handed down from another polytheistic religion. There are strong thematic concordances with the OT and earlier writings by the Sumerians and Canaanites. There are similarities between these and Egyptian religion. Perhaps it all did come from one source, perhaps there is only one god who divides, unites and re-boots every few thousand years.
Seems like the Christian's god is a fan of recycling.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
