Thorongil

I'm not sure what post you're responding to. Are you talking about the soteriologies of other religions (other than Christianity, that is, I assume)? ...

Well, there are agnostic theists, so the question was relevant. I find it interesting that your wager only goes so far as intellectual assent. Wouldn'...

Its non-controversial status is not determined either by my saying so or by people I know saying so. It's determined by the reasons given in support o...

No.

So, for the third time, do you belong to a particular religion or church? Cough it up, punk.

What a red herring. I'm aware that some people accuse others of doing this. But I asked you to find me someone who explicitly says they are waging or ...

Key word: If.

So we're to pretend we've found it?

Wot.

So, are we going to find you on the pew somewhere?

I'm also curious as to the degrees this wager can take in terms of practice. Is it just belief that you wager? What about a particular religion? Do yo...

What doesn't matter? The truth? No, I'm afraid it does, to me at least. You appear content in assenting to a proposition whose truth you do not know a...

What's the other way?

They are.

If you believe in the wrong God, then you could be roasting in the hell of another religion.

Ah, comfort. But see, for some people, truth trumps comfort.

Hirsi Ali, obviously. Lol.

You combat its ideas and legal encroachment. Who has declared war on Christmas?

Sorry, but you still haven't explained the "utility" here. Believing in God and salvation is more useful than not believing in God and salvation becau...

Which comes first though? Are you transformed because of your faith, or do you have faith and are transformed thereby?

So believing in God is useful because it's useful to believe in God? You just made a tautology.

To which one can reply, as I would, that they do. :-}

It has greater utility with respect to what?

Sure, but the conclusion to the wager, that believing in God gets one salvation, is now impossible to maintain if God can mean anything.

Aristotle is arguably a substance pluralist. He thinks there are lots of different substances.

Which makes it a meaningless term....

Compared to God, you are.

I didn't interact with him much, but this thread seems out of character from him, I dunno.

Once again, you're assuming I know what you mean by the word "God." Why don't you tell me, then we can proceed. Are you really Cavacava or have you si...

I've been reading through this thread and find it astonishing that you keep making this claim. It has been pointed out to you several times that the, ...

That's great, but I think the real question is whether you're going to become a League of Legends pro again.

None.

Perhaps the wise would not look to Internet forums as the depositories of wisdom. :-}

I would agree. The professionalization of the discipline has been a net negative, in my opinion. The scholasticism of the Middle Ages was nothing like...

How are you using the word "scholasticism?" Descartes is often considered to have brought on the death of that particular school of philosophy.

Did she mention the US? "We" is more generic than a country.

That doesn't contradict my statement.

So, John, are you a classical theist?

Jeopardy facts. While important, it's best not to overrate them. How you think is more important than what you know.

Because you say so. Got it. QED. How shall I ever recover from this argumentative masterclass?

They added the "the" and now emphasize it whenever they reference the university. You hear it on commercials, hear it from alumni, etc. Really annoyin...

I always read this like people from Ohio State refer to their university. It sounds so pretentious.

I like that quote. Schopenhauer employs it, too, as I recall. I think it's too vague to classify with any precision. Silesius seems to be coming out o...

I corrected this in my very first reply to you.

Are you a classical theist, John? Just out of curiosity.

What the hell? I'm not disputing those numbers, nor ever intended to. I was making a comparison by saying that there is generally an even greater poli...

Perhaps I missed them. I see only the identification being made, not the arguments thereto.

"A bit more parity" is not the same as "as likely as." Those on the left in academia outnumber those on the right by 2 to 1 generally speaking. I'm sa...

Google is your friend. There have been many studies and surveys done that show that leftist professors outnumber their conservative colleagues by quit...

Ah, so you can read. Excellent, then I still fail to see how what she said was controversial. Your what now? Why should I care? Again, so? "According ...