RE: My somewhat deconversion
April 20, 2012 at 12:45 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2012 at 12:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You can tell me exactly what a soup can is, hell, you can hit me in the head with one if I doubt it. I can read the label, I can check the contents.
You can only tell me what god -is said- to be. You could try to beat me over the head with one (and we see that often enough) but it isn't actually any god that's being swung like a club in that exchange. The labels are printed on top of each other, they all claim different ingredients. To top it off, I can't check the contents even if I wanted to.
A theist's point of view is only valuable to me if some truth value can be assigned to it. I can establish the truth value of the claims made on a can of soup anytime you'd like to put one to the test. Seems to me that a can of soup is at least as useful as a god in the area of purpose, as a nice little bonus, they contain soup. In short, a can of soup is everything that a god is not. It is real, it is tangible, it is beneficial to me, and it is accessible.
You can only tell me what god -is said- to be. You could try to beat me over the head with one (and we see that often enough) but it isn't actually any god that's being swung like a club in that exchange. The labels are printed on top of each other, they all claim different ingredients. To top it off, I can't check the contents even if I wanted to.
A theist's point of view is only valuable to me if some truth value can be assigned to it. I can establish the truth value of the claims made on a can of soup anytime you'd like to put one to the test. Seems to me that a can of soup is at least as useful as a god in the area of purpose, as a nice little bonus, they contain soup. In short, a can of soup is everything that a god is not. It is real, it is tangible, it is beneficial to me, and it is accessible.
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