(March 20, 2015 at 3:13 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(March 20, 2015 at 3:10 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I get a chuckle out of it because it simply highlights how the concept of god really only exists in each individual's mind. There is no definitive god, just a bunch of people filling in the gaps of a piss poor collection of Iron Age tales on their own.
But it seems like all he's trying to do is grind down our methods of investigation to something like "since everything and everyone, including literally the concept of "thinking", is biased and value based, and since we can't "know" anything, then everything is reduced to the same level, so my claims about the divine are as valid as your naturalistic ideas".
It's like shitting on a canvas and saying it's as artistically "valid" as the Mona Lisa, since they both contain the color brown.
Which is a common trick. "Everything is subjective, therefore my bullshit is just as valid as what you think." Except, even if everything is subjective, history has proven that logic, and conclusions based on evidence is still more consistent than bullshit. Our entire modern culture is based on the predictability of those rules. Even if it's wrong or biased or whatever compared to some sort of nebulous sense of objective rightness (if even such a thing exists), it's still less wrong than what theists spout.
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