(August 14, 2014 at 10:32 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: ...an agnostic atheist is that none [religion] stand out more than any other as the accurate truth of this universe. I mean, what do I pick? The "genuine history" claim? The "impossibly beautiful book" claim? The "reality incarnate through text" claim?
Shallow thinkers say things like, “they cannot all be true and therefore they must all be false.” That’s not you, but it’s a common refrain around these parts. Why does diversity of human religious experience mean that the Divine must be rejected altogether?
Picking a tradition to me seems to be more about mining the depths of one’s own faith as opposed reading everyone else’s Cliff Notes. In my experience, truly spiritual people that are deeply seeped in their own faith traditions are remarkably similar with respect to their gentleness and humility.
(August 14, 2014 at 10:32 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: That's great for you that you can have faith without having ever been given an explicit experience of God's existence. Great for you, and *only* youSo you do not count the whole of reality and your life’s experience in it as explicit enough? I often say, those who cannot recognize the Lord through His work cannot hope to see His countenance.