(August 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm)RAD Wrote: I'm having a little trouble with all the contradictions I see in what is loosely referred to as "rational thought."Contradictions in rational thought?
Here are 3 of the 20+ contradictions (paraphrased accurately I think) which I have identified:
If it was a contradiction, then was it rational to begin with?
(August 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm)RAD Wrote: Contradiction #1What does one of these things have to do with one another? I mean, it seems like two different responses to two different lines of thought.
Argument A: What makes you think the God of a univrse would care about a little speck like you? Don't be arrogant
Argument B: Why doesn't your God show himself to us and stop evil?
(August 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm)RAD Wrote: Contradiction #2Again, it seems like you're bring up two disparate points together to form a contradiction.
Argument A: Your God is too intolerant
Argument B: Your God saves an awful lot of stupid, arrogant people.
(August 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm)RAD Wrote: Contradiction #3I don't even see what either of these two arguements have to do with one another.
Argument A: Christians are so divided, I can't figure out which denomination is right
Argument B: Christians should think for themselves
(August 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm)RAD Wrote: Maybe you guys should get my whole list and hold a council, before the faithful figure out that maybe "rational thought" is in the mind of the beholder, and that assuming otherwise is more dangerous than becoming a ChristianI don't see how your examples lead to your conclusion. I'm not even a 100% on the arguement you're trying to make. I think you need to elaborate a great deal more so I can at least formulate an appropriate response.
My initial guess is that you're attempting to find contradictions in arguements against certain pro-theist points but the arguements dont' even seem like they're addressing the same topic.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
