RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
March 1, 2022 at 7:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2022 at 7:27 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 1, 2022 at 12:48 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Generally, I think of reality as having at least two, and most likely more, apprehensible natures: one known by sense, the other by intellect. Seems more accurate than material or mental.
No, these two must be connected because without knowing something by senses, but only "intellectually", you won't be able to differentiate it from other things in your head. Like you won't be able to know that God's existence is more plausible than Cinderella or Krisna or Odin.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"