Griggsy

Originally posted by Griggsy

Those other sources also are guilty of false interpretations of the prophecies, so tht is jst an ignoration elenchi- irrelevant.
Folks, Christians have murdered more Christians in the name of God that the Romans ever could with their sporadice,limited murders in the name of the state
Why have all those murders happened? Because people took as true the reification of the lack of answer that the term God provides, Christians have murdered and hated other Christ-addicts Tha

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Originally posted by shunyadragon

Originally posted by GioD

"Taking into account the advance of science" should not be relevant, because my question, in context, was about the intended meaning of terms like "cause" and "motion" as well as the interpretation of principles like the principle of causality and the law of non-contradiction when Aristotle and Aquinas designed the arguments. If you think I'm talking about evidence for excluding broader meanings of the term over the meanings of the terms from science, you're barking

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Thanks, Jon Day!
Aquinas' ontological argument from degrees of qualities of perfections his fourth way- reifies God as that continuum of those degrees. Michael Scriven in " Primary Philosophy" states for the reader to state why the silly argument fails!
Aquinas' fifth way- to design- is unlike Paley's no analogy but instead an argument claiming purpose for things such as the archer's purpose for the arrow to land at a specific place.Behold, the archer Aquinas puts the ...

Originally posted by Griggsy

Inane questions cannot instantiate Him!
It's immaterial what Levy-Bruhl says about reduced animism, because he assumes that putative God has intent when science, and not just a philosophical point, denies that. Thus, full and reduced animisms rely on no-intent whatsoever!
Theism then is just another superstition like its twin superstiton paranormalism, what together Paul Kurtz calls " The Transendental Temptation," a greater work than the "Summa"

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Originally posted by Griggsy

Many do have that fear of Hell for believing as that is in what the Yahweh of fundamentalists so revel! Many do have that fear of Yahweh. Many have that love of Allah or Yahweh as love and not fear.
Most people just believe,because of geography and parents. Theists do find arguments for their superstition but would believe anyway due to faith.
We naturalists find that theists use misinterpretations of evidence for

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