For a few reasons, the biggest is that it is a new thing. For all of human history until the last century Atheism was seen as something that is false. Atheism fights a God they don't believe in. In doing so they replaced God with Science, and in doing so they don't have to worry about a higher power with higher morals. — Isaiasb
How do you know what most people claim? Most of the people I've met didn't make any claims at all regarding philosophy.Most people today claim philosophy does not impact their lives, nor do they believe in having a philosophy at all. — Isaiasb
For their right to believe or not believe according to their own lights, and for their right to feel respect or contempt or whatever another's belief merits in their estimation. Religionists, Christian and Muslim both, force their belief, rules and practices onto everyone they can dominate, and so we have no option but to fight.Agnostics and atheists alike fight for their belief in nonbelief, and their desire to be contemptuous in believing nothing.
OK that's as valid as any opinion.No matter what we have a philosophy, because this is the core of any person.
It's true: everyone acts some way, according to their inclination, circumstances and ability.If a person is a Stoic, they would act differently than a Platonic. Whether or not they claim the philosophy, they will still act the same way.
There you go again, reading most people's minds without even asking their permission.Most people who do not claim a philosophy struggle to accept this simple fact,
No kidding!The only way to know this would be inherently wrong is to have a philosophy, which directs our morals and beliefs.
I don't think it declares anything at all.Postmodernism, which is the absence of absolute truth, declares we can’t know everything out there so we are all right in our beliefs,
Back? Methodology?In a sense, we have fallen back into Nihilism methodology
Battle between what opposing forces? Where is this absolute truth located?The battle for absolute truth is the biggest philosophical problem since the beginning of time.
We muddle through with legal guidelines, reason, considering the circumstances, deliberating among ourselves.If absolute truth isn’t true, where do we draw the line between good and bad, murder and manslaughter, theft and taking back what you are owed?
It doesn't exist and cannot be obtained.On the flip side, if absolute truth is true, what is it, and can it be obtained?
Oh, OK. So is this the god depicted in the bible? The one who drowned all the animals and children because he was pissed off by some men's disobedience, after he already threw their ancestors out of Eden for the same offense, then cursed a son who accidentally caught a glimpse of his drunk old man's wrinkled appendage, and impregnated a young virgin so she could have a baby in a barn and raise him to be brutally murdered in order to pay the debt he himself had placed on the people?In conclusion, belief in God declares Absolute Truth, but if a person does not believe in God Truth cannot exist. — Isaiasb
This is my point, the We is ambiguous because it would be the government that decided what is okay or not. Which in turn would create more North Koreas or another USSR. And yes those things happened, because if God does exist he is allowed to do anything he wants, we all disobeyed God and deserve hell, but he chose to save us that’s the beauty of the Old Testament. And the Old Testament wasn’t written for today it’s like saying Ancient Greece laws wouldn’t work today. God didn’t impose any debt, just as though a bank loans money doesn’t create the debt if the people can’t pay them back the loan.We muddle through with legal guidelines, reason, considering the circumstances, deliberating among ourselves. — Vera Mont
Ironically I have been an atheist longer than I have a Christian. — Isaiasb
This is my point, the We is ambiguous because it would be the government that decided what is okay or not. — Isaiasb
Which in turn would create more North Koreas or another USSR. — Isaiasb
Well, that's relief! So, when do you unveil the new tablets?And the Old Testament wasn’t written for today — Isaiasb
God didn’t impose any debt, just as though a bank loans money doesn’t create the debt if the people can’t pay them back the loan. — Isaiasb
I didn't believe in Absolute Truth but I was confident in my beliefs. — Isaiasb
Agnostics and atheists alike fight for their belief in nonbelief, and their desire to be contemptuous in believing nothing. — Isaiasb
Agnostics and atheists alike fight for their belief in nonbelief, and their desire to be contemptuous in believing nothing. — Isaiasb
The platonic definition of Truth — Isaiasb
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Through religious wars, conquest and royal edict. And most of the dictators in history have not removed religion so much as replaced the local religion with their own.How else would those systems come into place? Most dictators remove religion or change it to fit their agenda. — Isaiasb
If someone believes in the Orthodox Christian God, the belief in Truth becomes easy to conceptualize because John 14:6 specifies Jesus is truth — Isaiasb
It's simple, if God is Truth, then anything of God is true. So then verification comes from deciphering if it is of God or not, we us both the Holy Ghost and Scripture to figure this out. — Isaiasb
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