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Phat
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Message 32 of 54 (890352)
01-02-2022 4:03 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by AZPaul3
01-02-2022 3:44 PM


Re: Empiricist Stability
The thing is, jar never experienced what you call woo. (Im assuming that it means some sort of emotional experience that is mysterious and not evidence-based)
I, on the other hand, experienced woo several times. Admittedly, I want it to be real. I had enough subjective experience to believe that it was (and is). I won't let go of that easily at all. (and why should I?)
Jar stays connected to religion because it teaches values. His family reinforced the love. And the way he has formed his beliefs, it does not conflict with his social responsibility. (His charge, as he calls it)
The real question in my mind is why you are so anti-theist. What good is it for everyone to be on your dark side? Do you really think that human communion will someday lead to a much better world? I bet you liked star trek!

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain "
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“…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox

“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).


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