RE: Worst Arguments For Christianity
January 23, 2015 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 6:03 pm by Chas.)
(January 20, 2015 at 9:32 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: There is an obvious difference between saying "All arguments for Christianity are flawed" or "There are no good arguments for Christianity" and saying that the phrase "Christianity's greatest thinkers" is an oxymoron (it's not, and all of Western civilization was practically developed by thinkers either Christian or sympathetic to it, with a few obvious exceptions) or that theosophers have nothing more intelligent or insightful to offer than the "most intellectually challenged back-woods hick preacher." No one can seriously think that who has taken the time to read some of the greatest and most influential thinkers in history.
"Influential" doesn't mean intelligent, insightful, or correct.
(January 22, 2015 at 10:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 22, 2015 at 3:09 pm)robvalue Wrote: If there's no God then what's the point of life? Never understood that one.Simple. Purely physical processes just happen; they are not directed to any goals. If your life was a purely physical process then it could not support purposes and meanings.
Please read The Mind's I by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennet, then come back and apologize to the members of the forum for your shallow thinking.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
