RE: How to select which supernatural to believe?
July 18, 2022 at 6:01 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2022 at 6:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 17, 2022 at 10:03 pm)Belacqua Wrote: But when we are talking about values and methods that we ourselves like, then it may go unnoticed. We just assume that of course God would share our way of thinking and goals, because ours are the very best ones. How could a good God be different?
Both sides imagine God to be bigger versions of themselves, which may be a function that religion has always played. But it carries no persuasiveness in making a metaphysical argument.
Good point. God, not sharing our way of thinking or our goals, could be employing the earth as a means of exterminating human life. Perhaps it views us as an infestation. It's completely on us that we, in such a predicament, believe ourselves to be the beneficiaries of a soul improving forge owned and operated by a sympathetic deity. We think it's trying to help us and make us better, because that's what we would do - it's just trying to get rid of some whiteflies.
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