Gregory

Ok. I'm open to the idea of universalism (Origen) like Spong and I'd be happy if it's true. It makes more sense and gives more hope to life. Hell make...

Can I ask if you find theism unpalatable? I think you implied you were a post modernist and subjectivist. Descartes and Liebniz believed in God, even ...

I haven't said I can prove religion true. Nondual awareness of unity with God is hard to understand for everyone so people look for proofs. We do need...

Aren't you assuming it's rational to leave religion in the first place?

I've answered all your questions already. That's enough

Citation that religious fanaticism is on the rise? My guess in that about half the world's population is truly interested in religion, whole the rest ...

Supernatural, above and beyond the universe, infinite. I don't believe in God because of arguments, but from experience. The stance I took in this dis...

1) religious people believe that the world comes from a spiritual source. They all agree on that. Whether they agree or not on religious manifestation...

Why the angry post. I answered all Tom's questions and refuted your Wiki argument. My position was just that religion is not unreasonable. I never sai...

You would judge it by the same way an atheist would use to assess character in someone or in a group. You can't get inside other people's thoughts and...

Well those people are obviously wrong. An atheist still has to use internal conscience to decide on moral issues just as religious people have to weig...

Spinoza appears to say humans lack will but he stills believes in the mind and might be a compatabilist. Anyhow, a mind can't exist without will and h...

What's the difference between the Absolute and God? You are splitting hairs in order to avoid the other side of this question

Can you tell when you do right from wrong? That intuition is what humans were given to know truth. God doesn't have a gender. We say "he" because peop...

Acosmism is theism. You are neither it seems

Why is atheism the default? I'm just claiming what I know from experience. You've tried to refute the search for religion by rational argument. You're...

Most atheist don't mind a deistic God. They just don't want a deity butting into their business. Anyone who says God is in everything in his essence i...

QAnon? How are you distinguished from Stalin I can ask? If you don't think truth is attainable than why are you writing posts? Aren't you trying to be...

If you don't want to find truth than you are truly devoid of both the philosophical and religious spirit. At least you must still be curious about thi...

To know God is to be one with him. In that moment you are eternal with him where you are not distinguished from God but God is still distinguished fro...

Aren't you familiar with Spinoza's "intellectual love of God"?

. Spinoza says we are modes of God just as Aquinas says God is in everything in his essence. Obviously the consciousness we experience here is not God...

And it could be what the truth sounds like. You're going to take this as 50/50 chance? Everything has many interpretations abstractly. Conversations a...

Prayer has never been about getting stuff. It's opening oneself to spiritual things one finds uncomfortable. People who pray for cures already know th...

God demonstrates his presence to those with faith. As I said, God answers prayers as he wants, not as faithless people want. Someone might pray for a ...

Studies can't tell if prayer works because the experiment can't measure faith or know anything something is given in place of what is prayered for

Just how literal one wants to get with the Bible will depend on how you read it. There is hyperbole, figurative language, and stories. The Bible says ...

Nominalism is not saying that two objects can't be identical. They are saying each object has one principle (insteadbof two) that is physically shaped...

Matter and form are the same for nominalism. If you say objects don't share an abstract form, then they must share a material one. And then all rocks ...

Truth is real and ideas are real. Ideas only go together in certain ways. But applying substance outside the mind to truth is to put material reality ...

Suppose you turn two batches of carbon and oxygen into water. Where did the nature come from? They are identical because they share identical structur...

I think this question is empirical and there is a level of cohesion to atoms that form them into objects. We just don't know what that level is

Atheists want religion to be perfectly clear and this itself is against faith. Faith involves using discretion and reacting even when reason doesn't g...

Consider Richard Dawkins for example. Religion pours hot coals on his mind everyday and it clearly has caused him a lot of suffering. Just because he ...

Religious truths are not like scientific truths. Even scientific truths are relative to a degree. Only God is absolute. If you hold to objective truth...

Everyone approaches faith differently because they all experience religion differently. The Bible can be true for one and not another. Seriously. God ...

Prove that because religion comes in many forms it is not reliable as truth. You make premises without conclusions so it's as if you have faith in non...

Without a way to prove god's existence, what we can do is face the dislike we have towards god and really try to find ways not to be bothered by it. L...

You're really trying to justify ignoring spirituality because you it can't be put in a category? You cant grow much with only rationality. Faith is a ...

If you take the Bible literally you've missed its message

Two people can be opposed to each other and still be spiritual. Spiritual conflict is part of religion. People grow from struggle. From your side you ...

But maybe you don't seem to believe in the supernatural. Those who do have a common experience. I think the word 'religion' has use because it speaks ...

Doesn't "religion" have a certain definite meaning? It's a system of belief in the supernatural that arouses something, love or hatred to various degr...

I believe everyone should be exposed to religion and everyone has to deal with their own response to it. It's part of growing, which is the whole poin...

As far as what I know about early nominalism, they did not deny truths of language or that objects have properties. They denied non material forms and...

What about an argument for non-duality (Forms vs earth)? Either everything is one or it is not and hence there are many things, the latter being the e...

But how can contingent things have universals? Aren't universals our way of knowing a parcel of reality as it exists around us? Your belief in univers...

So if things don't make sense they can never make sense? People who want to believe in God already believe in God. There is not always a great rush ab...

Nominalism makes sense because of things in nature are in a continuum. If I took the time I could find many species of plants that look kinda like tre...

"When Descartes wished to assure himself of the truth of knowledge, he said : Cogito ergo sum; that is, he ceased to look at the cogitatum which is ab...