RE: What God's justification for eternal torment?
December 15, 2020 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2020 at 9:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure we can, but the point of asking if we can conceive of a world in which there is a god but life is not a soul forge is to demonstrate that the two concepts are distinct.
As such, any explanation of why a person believes in the soul forge that amounts to "cuz I believe in god" is a non sequitur. It doesn't follow and it's not really why they believe in a soul forge anyway. Plenty of people who believe in gods don't believe that life is a soul forge and neither idea depends on the other for it's own truth value. We can just as easily conceive of a soul forge with no gods, as well.
I'd object to religion as mere fantasy in much the same way. We can propose (and not without merit) that religion is fantasy, but there's nothing mere about it, and none of it truly depends on whether there's a god or a soul forge. Deconverts might notice that the contents of how they think the world should be don't change all that much when they lose their beliefs in gods or whatever whatsit they used to believe in. They find new (and perceptually better) ways of affirming religious content.
As such, any explanation of why a person believes in the soul forge that amounts to "cuz I believe in god" is a non sequitur. It doesn't follow and it's not really why they believe in a soul forge anyway. Plenty of people who believe in gods don't believe that life is a soul forge and neither idea depends on the other for it's own truth value. We can just as easily conceive of a soul forge with no gods, as well.
I'd object to religion as mere fantasy in much the same way. We can propose (and not without merit) that religion is fantasy, but there's nothing mere about it, and none of it truly depends on whether there's a god or a soul forge. Deconverts might notice that the contents of how they think the world should be don't change all that much when they lose their beliefs in gods or whatever whatsit they used to believe in. They find new (and perceptually better) ways of affirming religious content.
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