(July 15, 2015 at 11:56 am)AFTT47 Wrote:(July 15, 2015 at 1:05 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The purple blob is God.
It's the same basic principles/ideas, just with different titles.
There's a big difference regarding the purple blob. The purple blob is the unknown and perhaps (at least for the present) unknowable. You theists (at least the dogmatic kind) have this amazing idea that it's not unknown to you. You believe you know what it is, what it wants and that you can telepathically communicate with it. Even more problematic, each of you have a different idea about this purple blob - and all of you are convinced that you are right.
The purple blob represents that there is something more, something greater, and that it is and beyond our current ability to comprehend.
To him (the author), it is completely unknown. And that is why he describes it as the unknown. To us Christians, we see it as being God (which we also don't fully understand).
^Even though these are 2 different approaches, we are still in agreement that there is more out there, regardless of whether that's God, or simply anything else we don't fully comprehend and having nothing to do with any god.
This is what I mean when I refer to us religious and non religious alike having the same basic principle.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
