RE: If I were an Atheist
April 11, 2015 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2015 at 10:47 am by Whateverist.)
Of course your consciousness itself exists 'only' in your head. If your sense of God were as robust as your sense of self, that would make God a fairly significant entity in your subjective experience.
That wouldn't mean you'd be justified to make the outrageous theist claims regarding cosmological creation and an afterlife. But you could coherently claim that this 'god' created 'you' in the sense of who you are and created/creates the world of your experience. If only the vast majority of theists were not so brashly immodest in their claims we might have very different relationship with them. Sadly the last thing most xtians ever are is humble.
That wouldn't mean you'd be justified to make the outrageous theist claims regarding cosmological creation and an afterlife. But you could coherently claim that this 'god' created 'you' in the sense of who you are and created/creates the world of your experience. If only the vast majority of theists were not so brashly immodest in their claims we might have very different relationship with them. Sadly the last thing most xtians ever are is humble.
