Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9164 total)
2 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,914 Year: 4,171/9,624 Month: 1,042/974 Week: 1/368 Day: 1/11 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   A statement of my disbeliefs
Percy
Member
Posts: 22505
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
Member Rating: 5.4


Message 4 of 87 (202182)
04-25-2005 11:03 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by nator
04-25-2005 10:39 AM


Additionally, I also consider it possible that even if God exists, we have no reason to believe that we could understand of comprehend this entity at all.
I only differ in that as some part of my inner makeup I am utterly convinced there is a God, probably because I believe there's a higher reason for existence. It feels to me like there must be more than just you're born and then you die.
Someone with these kinds of inner feelings might likely be expected to affiliate with some religion or another, but I am not a member of any organized religion - I'm a Unitarian! (I know I've used that line before, but I like it.)
Even for a Unitarian my views are somewhat "out there", but since the local Unitarian churches have followed along with the national merging with the Universalists there is no longer much mention of spirtual issues during services, and I stopped attending long ago. The last service I attended was about keeping the right-wing hawks from nuking the pregnant and underpaid female handicapped whales. Reverend Dorothy Kimble, if you're out there, we need you back!
Giving the wide variety of religions on the planet, each with a conservative faction insisting that theirs is the one, right and true religion, it seems unlikely that any of them are privy to information about the true nature of God, especially those whose views are still anchored in pre-scientific beliefs.
I guess my views aren't entirely congruent with Krull and Schraf. Since I don't believe we know anything about God, I couldn't say whether we could comprehend him or not.
--Percy

This message is a reply to:
 Message 3 by nator, posted 04-25-2005 10:39 AM nator has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 78 by Taqless, posted 05-26-2005 11:29 AM Percy has not replied

  
Percy
Member
Posts: 22505
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
Member Rating: 5.4


Message 15 of 87 (202308)
04-25-2005 5:00 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by MangyTiger
04-25-2005 4:51 PM


Re: Off topic question
My guess was a submerged teenage mutant ninja turtle.
--Percy

This message is a reply to:
 Message 14 by MangyTiger, posted 04-25-2005 4:51 PM MangyTiger has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024