(April 17, 2015 at 6:50 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Well, the theist traps himself if he claims God is non-empirical, because he can then no longer make any claims to his nature, nor can he appeal to any sort of reason to believe in him beyond pure faith.
You see, saying God is non-empirical is just a way to avoid presenting proof, because while they're telling you he's non-empirical out of one corner of their mouth, they're telling you that they he watches you masturbate out of the other.
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Once you claim that a thing is non-empirical, then you must cease to make empirical claims about it. That god performed a miracle, spoke to someone, made a prophesy, sends people to heaven or hell, came to earth in human form, etc., are all empirical claims. Simply put, a non-empirical god might satisfy deists, but no one else.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.