I keep, irrationally, having hope that he'll suddenly start having a worthwhile good faith conversation about this stuff. — Terrapin Station
Which is still atheism. — DingoJones
No. This is such a basic and simple thing to understand. Atheism isn't anything like an ideology, a body of theory, a school of thought. It's only a term for one simple thing: the absence of a belief in gods. — Terrapin Station
Yes, so does everyone, I think. The fact is that they reach different conclusions thereby because they have different dispositional starting points, different experiences and different capabilities. I'm not sure what any of that has to do with a concern you may have with my reasoning. — Isaac
Lack of g/G belief isn't an alternative faith commitment to g/G belief any more than being celibate is an alternative sex act to sodomy. — 180 Proof
It was already corrected for you many times, by many different people, that atheism has nothing to do with beliefs about whether there is any "mystery in the world." — Terrapin Station
Are you sure? — 3017amen
I'm skeptical about unconscious mental content. That doesn't imply that I believe that everything is mental and thus conscious mental content. Accidents do not stem from mental content. — Terrapin Station
Forgive me again but this is how I see your logic: — 3017amen
Any belief system requires logic to support one's belief. I use clues from the natural world including my conscious experiences; then chose to make a leap of faith. — 3017amen
It concerns taking one's existence as an individual seriously enough to make choices and perceive events through the responsibility it confers upon one. — Valentinus
I've reached my conclusion (leap of Faith) based on 'existential phenomena'. All you've said is 'God is incoherent' but could not explain why, let alone speak to any existential phenomena...
Make sense? — 3017amen
In my case, I choose to believe in God through logical inference from the science's (cognitive and physical). The gap is the leap of Faith. — 3017amen
All you've said is 'God is incoherent' but could not explain why, — 3017amen
My concern is that you haven't provided what your 'system of belief' consists of. — 3017amen
At the time of Kierkegaard's writings, there wasn't as many discoveries as there are now in physical Science/physics and cognitive Psychology. — 3017amen
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