(March 13, 2015 at 4:41 am)robvalue Wrote: .....
I can't understand this dissidence people have where they think God is both completely unknowable, beyond our comprehension, unreachable by science, untestable, outside of anything you try and put him in... Yet they know everything about him down to his inside leg measurement, know all this motives and innermost thoughts and chat to him daily.
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This is an interesting philosophy of theology issue. Known an skeptical theism, it also has a way of putting the proposition God exists on a slippery slope to disproof. Skeptical theism is a concept worth googling for.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skeptical-theism/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptical_theism
Consequences for morality[edit]
A critical response to the skeptical theist proposal is that accepting the argument is akin to adopting a skeptical approach to morality. The argument goes that if one is unable to determine whether some particular good or evil is truly good or evil, such that we cannot even believe that there exists at least one instance of gratuitous evil, how can we be said to have any meaningful morality?[2][3]
Cheerful Charlie
If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain
If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain