(September 8, 2021 at 5:31 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:Theology is an attempt to use made-up superpowers to explain away things(September 8, 2021 at 12:28 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Not really, God isn't equivalent to Russell's teapot. Russell's teapot is an arbitrary object inside the universe. God is posited to be the cause of the universe. Positing a personal cause of the universe can't really be put hand to hand with any arbitrary assertion about existence.
Also, proving God's existence can have an effect in our life. If we prove the theistic God, then an afterlife very probably exists, and answering prayers becomes possible, etc. Proving Russell's teapot, for example, won't change anything, and doesn't imply an afterlife.
Doesn’t matter what additional ad hoc qualifier you dream up that appears to you to make your as hoc bullshit god harder to disprove. Disproval was totally unneeded to dismiss your god before you dreamt up the qualifier, it is just as totally unneeded afterwards.
Without your qualifier, Your god can be trivially dismissed as something that could not possibly be more bullshitty. it can still be dismissed with the exact same level of certainty as being of exactly that same sublime level of bullshittiness with the additions of your qualifier.
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM