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Isn’t it much more likely that if a diety exists that it isn’t described by any of the small handful of religions we have concocted here on earth?
by zwkrt 7y ago
Isn’t it much more likely that if a diety exists that it isn’t described by any of the small handful of religions we have concocted here on earth?
- ggggtez 7y agoThis is a sort of "gambit" that doesn't work because it assumes that all religion is created by humans. But most religions claim they are handed down directly from God, so the point would be moot. Of course anyone who thought their religion was made up by a human wouldn't really believe it. So this won't convince anyone either way.
- zwkrt 7y agoI guess I just mean to say that I can still have the abject wonder about the world we see around us and have reason to believe that there was something (as opposed to nothing) responsible for the entirety of existence, without having to fall back on saying that MY religion is the reason for this to be the case.
- jbensan 7y agoI agree with your logic. Believing something made the world doesn't necessarily mean one religion reveals that something. In the journey of my life experiences I have found a compelling case in the Bible and Jesus. I understand that it sounds strange (incomprehensible?) to others with different experiences. But the best I can say it in short form, logic opens the door for belief, beauty guides me through that door. By "beauty" I mean that aesthetic sense of rightness. The same feeling that makes me know a painting is good is the same feeling that makes me feel that the story of revelation, fall, redemption presented in the Christian religion is True. What I can't understand is atheists who balk at the possibility of any kind of god, but happily entertain the notion that we are in a simulation. What exactly would be the difference in a created reality and a simulated reality?