(July 1, 2018 at 9:37 am)MysticKnight Wrote:(July 1, 2018 at 9:16 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: This wasn’t a rhetorical question, MK. And, the fact that you chose not to answer it leads me to suspect that perhaps you’re more self-aware of the fatal flaw in your argument than you’ve lead us to believe up to this point.
“Quran is true because Quran says so” - And - “Quran is true because when I read it in a special way, its magic tells me how true it is.”
— are exactly the same statement. In the latter, you’re simply adding another unsupported assertion; “cuz the book is magical”, as a placeholder for the external evidence that you don’t have. You are still attempting to use the book to prove the truth of the book, which unfortunately for your argument, is still question begging. “Cuz magic”, is not an escape hatch, and it doesn’t get you out of your fallacy.
But, I have a funny feeling you know that already.
They are not the same statement if you understand the nature of miracles and reasoning to attest to them.
The word "miracle" is a gap filling word and is nothing but a superstition.
It is simply an ignorant way of saying "Magic explains it because I don't know."
This garbage of a word falls apart when you look at the amount of death that happens all over the world from everything. 50 to 60 million humans WORLDWIDE die each year from everything at every stage of life. That is 500 million deaths every 10 years and 1 billion deaths every 20 years.
The reality is you either survive something or you don't, but death gets everyone no matter what. There is no magic to surviving or dying.
I still find good in life and still find joy, even though I also feel pain, and no, that does not make my life meaningless to me. It just means I accept reality without assigning it to gap filling superstitious words that are hollow and meaningless.
I do not need a god to live my life. I do not need to assign the good or bad that happen to super heros or ground trolls.