Re: God
By: echicken to Atari X on Mon Jan 11 2010 12:32 pm
>
> Part of the trouble that I'm having in discussing this with you is that you
> seem to have a specific definition of "God" in your head (one that requires
> "faith" to be believed in, etc.) Many people believe many different things.
> What harm would it do to believe in the clockmaker, even if his existence wa
> meaningless?
>
> echicken
I think we covered this. God provides us with no proof of this existence - we
have to have faith that he exists at all. If there was any proof of his
existence, regardless of how small - we'd all believe in him - it would be
foolish not to.
Faith is the magic sauce that makes God go. I don't know any other simpler way
to say it. If no-one had faith that God existed, then religion would have
disappeared a long time ago.
So, to address the rest of your reply - with no faith that God (or anything)
exists, then why would you put in any stock in it's existence?
For example, I have no faith that the Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy exist - and
wow, they don't. If I believe in the Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy even when I
don't have any faith that they exist, then I'm an idiot.
Same goes for God.
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