Moose
350 posts and you still don’t get it.
Consider your life and who you are. Are you the result of only things which CAN BE REPEATED and TESTED. At 4:46PM EST on Dec.9,1965 I saw a large meteor, can’t repeat that, can’t test it, there is no physical evidence of it, so does that mean it didn’t exist and that it didn’t happen?
It doesn’t matter to me or any rational person that it was reported in the papers or reported to be seen by people from Toronto to Detroit, it exists because I saw it. If I was the only person who saw it, it doesn’t change a thing, except if fools like Straggler believe me. Who cares? Who died and made him or you the God of what is acceptable human experience?
Do fantastic claims require fantastic evidence? No they require the same evidence as everything else. For that matter WHO decides what is fantastic.
In Straggler’s thread on morality being relative his main point is that asking anyone about morals yields differing opinions. This therefore proves his point that morals are relative and made up by people. Is this the same standard of evidence he is using here?
Why doesn’t he just go out and ask ANYONE what they think about god/s. It was acceptable for him with morality. Why not here? Or did RAZD see the same thing I did?
Straggler changes his evidence criteria to push his belief agenda. Does RAZD do that? Not that I can see. He appears to use, like everyone in real life, all of his experience regardless if it can be reproduced or tested. He weights it differently and that depends on his viewpoint and past subjective experience. No one operates in life like Straggler is suggesting, and he knows that.
I don’t see much difference between some theists and atheists and they produce the same results in history. Theists have been killing others for their god for centuries. Atheists like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have done the same. Straggler has made scores and scores of posts here, just like some born again Christian nutcase. He can’t have RAZD being different. Now, why does that remind me of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot?
Name a deist who has done likewise. There maybe one, but I can’t think of any.
Deists have pissed lots of people off. They wrote this
we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
The major religions had over a thousand years to say the same, and never did. No atheist would have written that either.
Still don’t see the difference?