RE: Christians what would change your mind?
August 10, 2020 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2020 at 2:46 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(August 10, 2020 at 2:24 pm)SUNGULA Wrote: The complaint of the religious is that we don't give their idea's dignity they don't deserve . It is outrage at irreverence not truth or accuracy. That is used as an excuse to dismiss criticism without engaging it .
All ideas deserve the dignity of being properly represented. Words are imbued with emotional coloring which varies even as the literal meaning stays the same. As Bertrand Russell put it, "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is pigheaded." Synonyms vary in connotation, and with it their accuracy.
To call God a magical sky fairy is a deliberate attempt to change a words connotation for the purposes of misrepresenting it.