(July 1, 2015 at 10:49 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Religion makes sense, because, religion is about putting into practice divine treasures in the soul: through divine text and writing, through practical example and code of practice, and through teachers and guides.
The problem is, these "divine treasures" only exist in your mind.
(July 1, 2015 at 10:49 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Denying the divine treasures in the soul is illogical and against our knowledge of ourselves.
I'm afraid it's quite logical, actually because there is no reason to believe they exist.
It's obvious that you are a very reflective person but you rely entirely on feeling to guide you. I can have what you might call a spiritual experience by laying out under a star field, listening to classical music and reflecting on the vastness of the universe. I'll experience feelings of awe, perhaps a connection to it all. I may have flashes of intuition about this or that. The difference between you and me though is that I respect empirical evidence more than you do. That evidence tells me that any thoughts I might interpret as divine revelation is just a byproduct of the brain chemistry of my heightened state. There is the fact that I can reproduce that state at will through drugs. You are ignoring that and are treating the feelings as something primal rather than simple products of brain chemistry. This is the divide between us. We atheists think logically, empirically. You are thinking with feelings. We cannot put faith in feelings.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein