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God is NATURAL????
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, March 6 2012, 11:32:38 (UTC)
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...it is natural to walk on water? When`s the last time you did it? Or saw it done?

The whole point to gods is that they are UNatural.....they are SUPERnatural...they are above nature...else why worship them over any other man? Gods create miracles, miracles are unatural, that`s the whole point. Gods regularly suspend Natural Law...they can make the sun stand still...they can turn fishes into loaves...they can raise the dead, they are by very definition beyond Nature.

Can you see why religion is obscurantist? Why it tries to obscure rather than make clear?

What I posed to you was very simple...the person making the fantastical claim, whether it is a claim about the existence of gods, or pigs on Mars, is the one who has to provide the evidence, not the person who refuses to believe....and you can`t tell the non-believer that HE must prove the NON-existence of Gods, just as you can`t prove there is NO pig on Mars...and that just because I can`t DISPROVE there is a God, you can`t say to me, therefore there MUST be a god, or MIGHT be a god.

I gave the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy as further instances of weid things people believe in, which also doesn`t make them true....

It`s a very, very simple proposition...no need to get Aristotelian about it...or split hairs or parse things where there is no confusion at all...unless you are trying to confuse, to lay a smoke screen behind which you think we might notice the sleight-of-hand....we NOTICE...we`ve been at this a long time...you`re not the first to try to awe us....but it has yet to work and won`t now...the story is a simple one: You say there are gods,,,I ask you for evidence...and I catch you when you say I must prove there are no gods and if I can`t then there MIGHT be. That won`t do.

Don`t insist on refusing to learn, to grow, to adapt....let it happen, use your head...don`t be afraid.



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