RE: Gaps in theistic arguments. Secular theism vs religious theism
February 26, 2015 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 6:01 pm by Mudhammam.)
(February 26, 2015 at 4:26 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Is it your hope to remove intention entirely so that we can go about our lives like spring driven toys?When physicists discovered that solid objects are composed of mostly empty space, did you accuse them of fear-mongering because people would be afraid to step out of bed and fall through the floor?
Understanding how the world works makes us wiser and better informed in our moral decisions. Please tell me how your life would be immediately be transformed if you came to believe that matter--and specifically you in this case---is composed of parts that were once very different constituents in the surrounding environment and now due to changes entirely beyond your control, they continue to be pushed and pulled as before but with the added causal influence of this incredible emergent phenomenon that is self-aware (like your imagined deity) called conceptual thought.
Maybe you should put down the Aristotle a bit and pick up Epicurus.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza