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onifre
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Message 39 of 536 (604595)
02-13-2011 11:16 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by slevesque
02-11-2011 1:48 PM


Re: Inductive Atheism
Hi Slevesque,
You seem much more willing to answer questions than RAZD is, so I'll pose this question to you, as I was going to eventually ask RAZD but his evasive debate tactics never lead us to it.
In either cases, even if the experience is genuine (not imagined),
Even if there is a genuine real supernatural "thing" that you can experience somehow - (and lets call it a "thing" because we don't yet know what it is) - how then is the human imagination not the producer of the concept/ie. God that said thing is now represented as?
- Oni

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onifre
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Message 43 of 536 (604717)
02-14-2011 1:54 PM
Reply to: Message 42 by xongsmith
02-14-2011 1:40 PM


Re: Inductive Atheism
No! Most emphatically, he is not. He's a fictional cartoon character.
Having argued this with Straggler myself, I think he means that the concept of a ghost like casper, which is claimed to do the things it does, is a supernatural concept. Now, it is a concept found in the arena of fictional books and movies, or what have you.
Jesus, which was your supernatural concept that you introduced in the Peanut Gallery, would be a supernatural concept found in religious texts, etc.
- Oni

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onifre
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Message 59 of 536 (604887)
02-15-2011 6:43 PM
Reply to: Message 55 by xongsmith
02-15-2011 2:59 PM


Re: Inductive Atheism
In my thinking, there is no way any person familiar with Casper The Ghost would ever believe there was anything actualized outside of the confines of the story line of the comic strip/cartoon that anyone would describe as truly "supernatural".
I feel the same way about Jesus.
- Oni

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