- 04 Mar 2021 02:34
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August 8th, 2019
@Godstud -- I cite the authorities on these things because they spent the overwhelming majority of their life dedicated to Christianity and studying these topics. It's not that "everything has to come from a book!," it's that the Bible is the most important book in the West and it has been studied extensively by the brightest minds for the last 1500 years...
To ignore this and try to just invent your own ad hoc theology is dumb.
I read books -- I found some places where the leading authorities of my Church discussed this, so I refer back to it...
Yuo know, I can't erase this stuff from my head, right? When I read the best explanation for what something is, I take that explanation as the true explanation. I don't think, "Geez, OK, I gotta now go and create my own theology/ethical philosophical/theory of evolution/Second Law of Thermodynamics to top this... If I don't, I'll just be a dumb-dumb that leans too heavily on the work of experts."
When I quote the Saints, "everything I say has to come from a book," and I am a brainwashed follower...
And when I free it up and write on my own, it's arrogance and prideful ranting.
Not a lot of options here for a guy like me.
Imagine calling for empirical evidence at a time like this..!
We are discussing what is Goodness!, evil, theosis... This isn't exactly a convenient moment to have us drop everything and
show me concrete evidence that God even exists & your religion is true!
You know, it's possible to discuss something about religion without it getting immediately slapped down with OK, so prove it, RAIGHT NOW, by my epistemology.
To ignore this and try to just invent your own ad hoc theology is dumb.
I read books -- I found some places where the leading authorities of my Church discussed this, so I refer back to it...
Yuo know, I can't erase this stuff from my head, right? When I read the best explanation for what something is, I take that explanation as the true explanation. I don't think, "Geez, OK, I gotta now go and create my own theology/ethical philosophical/theory of evolution/Second Law of Thermodynamics to top this... If I don't, I'll just be a dumb-dumb that leans too heavily on the work of experts."
You write with petty arrogance and prideful ranting.
When I quote the Saints, "everything I say has to come from a book," and I am a brainwashed follower...
And when I free it up and write on my own, it's arrogance and prideful ranting.
Not a lot of options here for a guy like me.
There is no evidence that some other religion doesn't have it right, and that you're doing it wrong. There might even be no "gods", atall.
Imagine calling for empirical evidence at a time like this..!
We are discussing what is Goodness!, evil, theosis... This isn't exactly a convenient moment to have us drop everything and
show me concrete evidence that God even exists & your religion is true!
You know, it's possible to discuss something about religion without it getting immediately slapped down with OK, so prove it, RAIGHT NOW, by my epistemology.
August 8th, 2019