RE: Arguments against Soul
February 8, 2020 at 3:20 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2020 at 3:34 am by EgoDeath.)
(February 7, 2020 at 7:47 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: That's nice, and Tack disagrees.
Bel's purpose here on the forum is, apparently, to correct "simple-minded" atheists. Not simple-minded Christians.
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Not necessarily to gae but just everyone reading this thread:
Keep in mind, Bel claims that there is "no true essence" to Christianity, i.e. that there is no "true form" of Christianity, and yet when debating with atheists, he clearly adheres to a specific form of Christianity - in fact, it's such a specific form of Christianity that he is seen constantly quoting the same philosophers, using the same, tired, old argments again and again, while completely ignoring the fundamentalist Christian thought, or the moderate contemporary Christian thought, or at least the kind that says "I believe in god, but haven't really read the Bible and don't care to."
Bel is very clearly highly fond of quite a specific type of Christianity. And yet, when it comes to this religion he'll claim "there is no true form." Funny. It's almost as if Bel himself finds certain forms of Christianity to be intellectually superior to others, and certain forms to be utterly ridiculous, both intellectually and philosophically. In fact, he won't even entertain certain pro-atheist arguments because they are just "too simplistic," no matter that they actually address claims made in real-life by real-life Christians, who aren't actually afraid to call themselves Christians, even in the presence of atheists.
So, he won't even take seriously certain arguments made by Christians, which is to assume that he simply doesn't take certain forms of Christianity very seriously as a whole. But wait, I thought there was no true form of Christianity? Who says the fundies are any less 'Christian' than the armchair theologians?
This dude is clearly a bad-faith actor, or just a well-read moron. Unfortunately for Bel, reading Aquinas and quoting Aristotle doesn't actually make you smarter than anyone else, much to his chagrin, I'm sure. It just means that one can learn to parrot arguments that are slightly more sophisticated than those of the fundies and fag-haters. What's more, I'm not actually convinced that Bel understands these arguments he's parroting as well as he claims he does. He constantly walks away from debates because people "clearly are not interested" in what he has to say, despite evidence to the contrary. Or he'll get fed up with being insulted, despite having no problem insulting atheists for being "simple" or "too brash" or whatever else. This guy is such a hypocrite and I'm not even actually convinced that he understands his own arguments. When he starts getting ripped apart he just walks away.
I really see no reason to take anything Bel says seriously anymore, after digesting much of what he's had to say here on AF. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that he's actually a Christian, and posts regularly on certain Christian forums, under a different name, obviously. This dude is too full of shit for me to even care to interact with anymore.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.