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What would you consider to be evidence for God?
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What a load of cobblers.
There are different categories of made up bullshit now? 
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy 
A fairie is not that which the greater than which cannot be conceived.
RE: What would you consider to be evidence for God?
April 14, 2016 at 9:28 am
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2016 at 11:44 am by robvalue.)
"Can be conceived of" is rather subjective.
If it can be described at all, it's usually pretty easy to conceive of something greater. I certainly have no trouble. Or a crappy god could just make followers who can't conceive of anything greater than it. Same difference.  RE: What would you consider to be evidence for God?
April 14, 2016 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2016 at 1:40 pm by Fake Messiah.)
What would I consider to be evidence for God? Well it depends on what God, doesn't it? If there was suddenly a video recording of a giant creature rising from the sea with male torso holding a trident in his hands and fish lower body I wouldn't think it was evidence for God Adoni, now wouldn't I? Or evidence for monkey-god Hanuman would I guess be a sudden appearance of giant banana in the sky and perhaps rain of coconuts - or is it too racist toward monkeys?
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"
(April 14, 2016 at 9:14 am)RozKek Wrote:(April 14, 2016 at 8:05 am)ChadWooters Wrote: A fairie is not that which the greater than which cannot be conceived. Sorry about that. It was a bit awkward. The most basic definition of God comes from Anselm: God is that which the greater than which cannot be conceived. That definition effectively disarms inane comparisons between the Christian God and mythological creatures like fairies, etc. (April 14, 2016 at 9:28 am)robvalue Wrote: If it can be described at all, it's usually pretty easy to conceive of something greater. I certainly have no trouble.I doubt that you actually understand what it means to conceive something, rather than just imagine it, or understand what it actually means, in the Scholastic sense, for one thing to be 'greater' than another. |
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