Not an encouraging story. Most people of intelligence use some methods or standards. They don't simply exchange one set of gut-beliefs for another one. That doesn't show a respect for logic or experience.Count Lucanor wrote:Oh, sure, I was an innocent kid once and I believed in many of these superstitions: a god, the Tooth Fairy (actually a mouse named Pérez in LatAm), ghosts, UFOs and so on. But I grew up.Chili wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
What are some delusions you once had, and how did you find out you had been wrong?
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Fortunately (for me), unfortunately (for you), there's no need to guess, imagine, interpret anything. It is written in plain text from your own aources. The evidence has been submitted about the absolutely nonsensical, infantile beliefs held by the most famous theologian of the Catholic Church. The man believed in heavenly hierarchies (his own words) according to what he found in the Bible, which he also believed to be an authority in all matters. Everything can be verified and of course, could be refuted pointing at the evidence itself. Obviously i's impossible to refute, so all we'll get to hear is this whining and the repeated reference to some defining argument of truth hidden somewhere in an unreachable place, because it never shows up.Dark Matter wrote:And you still imagine he's talking about a big man in the sky. What can it be but willful ignorance on your part?Count Lucanor wrote:Yeah, we already learned a lot from Father Barron's video: the god delusion is still hanging from medieval thinking.
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That's what growing up entails, I'm sure. What is not encouraging is seeing adults which have not grown up and still entertain those delusions.Chili wrote:Not an encouraging story. Most people of intelligence use some methods or standards. They don't simply exchange one set of gut-beliefs for another one. That doesn't show a respect for logic or experience.Count Lucanor wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
Oh, sure, I was an innocent kid once and I believed in many of these superstitions: a god, the Tooth Fairy (actually a mouse named Pérez in LatAm), ghosts, UFOs and so on. But I grew up.
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So good that you didn"t have to deal with St. Thomas and the Catholic church back then. You would have been signaled as an heretic.Londoner wrote:
God is unknowable; he can only be described symbolically, because all the predicates that we might use about God have an opposite, but God has no opposite.
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Quite to opposite, in fact. Aquinas would be the first one to agree.Count Lucanor wrote:So good that you didn"t have to deal with St. Thomas and the Catholic church back then. You would have been signaled as an heretic.Londoner wrote:
God is unknowable; he can only be described symbolically, because all the predicates that we might use about God have an opposite, but God has no opposite.
Seriously, CL. You should learn something about what you want to criticize before criticizing it. You’re making a fool of yourself.
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Declaring something to be so - without giving reason nor evidence - this makes you the king of the universe. Perhaps there is no reason for an external God then.Count Lucanor wrote:Fortunately (for me), unfortunately (for you), there's no need to guess, imagine, interpret anything. It is written in plain text from your own aources. The evidence has been submitted about the absolutely nonsensical, infantile beliefs held by the most famous theologian of the Catholic Church. The man believed in heavenly hierarchies (his own words) according to what he found in the Bible, which he also believed to be an authority in all matters. Everything can be verified and of course, could be refuted pointing at the evidence itself. Obviously i's impossible to refute, so all we'll get to hear is this whining and the repeated reference to some defining argument of truth hidden somewhere in an unreachable place, because it never shows up.Dark Matter wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
And you still imagine he's talking about a big man in the sky. What can it be but willful ignorance on your part?
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That's what growing up entails, I'm sure. What is not encouraging is seeing adults which have not grown up and still entertain those delusions.Chili wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
Not an encouraging story. Most people of intelligence use some methods or standards. They don't simply exchange one set of gut-beliefs for another one. That doesn't show a respect for logic or experience.
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Count Lucanor wrote:So good that you didn"t have to deal with St. Thomas and the Catholic church back then. You would have been signaled as an heretic.Londoner wrote:
God is unknowable; he can only be described symbolically, because all the predicates that we might use about God have an opposite, but God has no opposite.
Londoner claims that God is unknowable, and yet many claim that they know God. If you can imagine a coin with only one side, or the sound of one hand clapping, then you will know God, I suppose.
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After the monumental embarrassment that you've been put through for foolishly serving in a golden pan the evidence that refuted your own claims (and revealing your ignorance of it), I thought that your reaction would be predictable. You know, trying to look the other way, put the chin up and place some smiley faces here and there. But I didn't know you would descend to play as a vulgar internet troll. That looks so sad, I'm starting to feel guilty.Dark Matter wrote:Quite to opposite, in fact. Aquinas would be the first one to agree.Count Lucanor wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
So good that you didn"t have to deal with St. Thomas and the Catholic church back then. You would have been signaled as an heretic.
Seriously, CL. You should learn something about what you want to criticize before criticizing it. You’re making a fool of yourself.
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All this obtuse denial of the evident, reminded me of the perfectly delivered spoken portrait of the common delusional god believer, by Pat Condell. Astonishingly accurate:
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It's a classic, along with some Dawkins and Hitchens videos. What's interesting is that it's never outdated and it even helps shedding light on the modus operandi of gullible believers like you in this thread. When he says: "...if you hear a senior clergyman (and you will), using the word transcendent to explain the nonsense he declares to believe...", that transports you right to page 69. He nails it.Dark Matter wrote: Took you long enough to find that. How long ago was it posted On YouTube? 6 years? I’ve been watching his Pat’s videos for years. I agree with a lot of the things he says. I don’t believe in what he’s denying, either.
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Sure, it makes more sense now. Who will question now the truth of the Trinity and the heavenly hierarchy of the angelical society, so passionately defended by St. Thomas.Dark Matter wrote:It’s never outdated because it’s always the SOSM (same ‘ole straw man). By the way, scientists have concluded the universe shouldn’t exist, either. Does that mean it’s existence is “supernatural”?
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Why? Because “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Religion is an attempt to answer the question in order that man may know how to live. (Read Maps of Meaning or Guide for the Perplexed)
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