HuffPost reported that one of his recent tweets ended 'impeach the Pres.' It didn't seem sarcastic or rhetorical, just a bald statement. And I'm start...
Sure. But the point is to illustrate the kinds of existential questions that might provoke a religious sense (as distinct from simply accepting what y...
'What if, at the point of death, I were to discover that in some sense I am still conscious?' 'What if the way I have lived my life is subjected to ju...
'Some particular God' sounds very much like something an ancient Sumerian or Roman might ask. In any case, what I mean is that the types for whom reli...
That is a popular internet meme, supposed to convey the idea that ‘belief in God is an end to all questioning’. However if you really did come to beli...
Actually the Renaissance humanists - Ficino, Pico Della Mirandolla in particular - were mainly Platonist and Neo-platonist. Their emphasis on Plato wa...
Social psychology, history of ideas, cultural dynamics. I didn't say 'scriptures'. Western culture incorporated Greek philosophy, Muslim philosophy an...
No, not a subset of Christian dogma. But many of the fundamental terms of early modern science, which laid the foundations for later science, such as ...
Does this allow for the status of 'God' as 'transcendent of time'? i.e. outside of or not bound by time? As I've noted to you previously, strictly spe...
I think that's mistaken. Modern scientific atheism, of the kind advocated by popular science commentators, is constructed from the hollowed-out shell ...
From some perspectives I might be considered atheist - I don't believe in the kind of God figure that a lot of atheists doubt and believers pray to. B...
It would take a book, although one thing I could say is that it provides no account of meaning. As one theistic philosopher puts it: This also came up...
If you realise that philosophical/scientific materialism is fallacious, then what are the alternatives? In my view, philosophical/scientific materiali...
:up: incidentally, I found a blog post years ago, long since vanished, which argued that the scholastic 'proofs of God' were in no way intended as rhe...
Agree! Well, they might still be atheists but not on the basis of such facile arguments. Dawkins' book The God Delusion begins with a chapter on Einst...
It simply explains a lot of the blatant nonsense he goes on with, and also the obvious fact that he's consistently sabotaging himself. Like - if he'd ...
Which is attributable to social psychology and philosophy. Suicide is a leading cause of non-natural death in contemporary culture, and I’m sure it’s ...
This 'so called God' is also not God. The arithmetical allusion is, I think, a reference to the Platonist intuition that mathematical necessity is a c...
The specific belief in question was 'treat others as self', as an example of Christian principles. Janus then said: So I replied by referring to your ...
But if such ideas are Then there's no reason to believe them, they are not grounded in anything other than contingent facts. Some people just happen t...
I think, through practice, you 'understand' it in your bones. You might not be able to spell it out, say what it is, but you understand it by exemplif...
I thought it went without saying that God is not a physical entity but spirit. Of course, that then raises the question of the nature of spirit - whic...
I take it that point of your example is that, as different religions all claim some privileged relationship with an absolute truth, and yet they all d...
It’s a philosophical question: what, in experience, is not composed of parts and or has a beginning and end in time? Name something. I’m betting that ...
Can you name any such thing? I mean, here I am, typing my response to you on an iPad on the kitchen bench: there’s nothing I can sense here which is n...
Surely any intelligent observer, without any commitment to political ideology left or right, can see that mendacity is a threat to the integrity of an...
The thing we need to know about Trump’s psyche is that in his world, it’s impossible for him to be wrong or anything less than great. So whatever stre...
What I'm trying to explain is that the 'God' that atheism says doesn't exist, really doesn't exist, but that this doesn't validate atheism. Mainly it’...
Yeah well it’s the Trump thread. The worst case scenario coming out of the impeachment inquiry is that Congress moves the Articles of Impeachment, but...
that is true. My background is more as the proverbial ‘truth-seeker’ - corny-sounding word but can’t think of another. My seeking started off with som...
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