RE: Heads up advice for atheists.
November 1, 2014 at 4:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2014 at 4:59 pm by Mystic.)
The way I look at it humans are naturally spiritual and looking for answers.
Some people through out history have taken advantage of the spirituality seeking nature of humanity into that they ought to follow the guidance provided by that said person. An organization is that formed around those people.
When people come here debating Atheists, I think they don't care as much as to the particular point of view they follow, but for spirituality and God in general and they want to discuss that debate.
They talk about science because they might feel there is an intellectual scientific reason to believing a Creator.
At the end, this is more important to them, then believing their particular religion.
But when asked to prove how they know their religion is true, they draw on another argument level, that assumes spirituality and God are proven, and the perhaps arguments used to support it are true. They get more desperate however as proving a religion is true will not have very much philosophical arguments or scientific arguments. Or if it does, they aren't properly equipped to defend it as they have believed for reasons other then it being proven to them.
I think there is however this two layered thing going on.
Some people through out history have taken advantage of the spirituality seeking nature of humanity into that they ought to follow the guidance provided by that said person. An organization is that formed around those people.
When people come here debating Atheists, I think they don't care as much as to the particular point of view they follow, but for spirituality and God in general and they want to discuss that debate.
They talk about science because they might feel there is an intellectual scientific reason to believing a Creator.
At the end, this is more important to them, then believing their particular religion.
But when asked to prove how they know their religion is true, they draw on another argument level, that assumes spirituality and God are proven, and the perhaps arguments used to support it are true. They get more desperate however as proving a religion is true will not have very much philosophical arguments or scientific arguments. Or if it does, they aren't properly equipped to defend it as they have believed for reasons other then it being proven to them.
I think there is however this two layered thing going on.
