(June 19, 2010 at 2:22 pm)Caecilian Wrote: Perhaps the problem is this: for AngelThMan truth is absolute, revealed truth. Truth that is contingent, based on experimental investigation and represents a 'best available model' simply doesn't qualify.You hit the nail on the head, Caecilian. Religious believers are not satisfied with anything less than absolute truth:
- They wanna know NOW who made this all, even if it's the wrong question.
- They wanna know NOW what is their purpose in life, even when they are free to decide on that themselves.
- They wanna know NOW who is gonna be the final judge they can rely on, even when judgement on human behaviour has no absolutes.
- They wanna know NOW who created life even when they stumble over million years old fossils in musea that tell the story of nature.
It's this childish anthropomorph urge to satisfy knowledge the cheap way that drives 'm away from real answers. It's what drives 'm into the arms of prophets, claimers of absolute truth, dogma and fabulation. And though they nowadays rely on science in every aspect of their daily life, they flat out deny the picture that emerges from science. They want free lunch and they want it NOW.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0