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Author Topic:   God and the human mind
crashfrog
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Message 56 of 141 (141498)
09-11-2004 2:01 AM
Reply to: Message 55 by sad2kno
09-10-2004 11:25 AM


Some snakes can see infrared light, this is a dimension they operate on, one that humans can't and haven't operated on until recently (infrared goggles etc.)
It's more accurate to describe infrared light as a "color", not as a "dimension." It's just a color we can't see unaided, not an entire universe of sensation or something.
Likewise their are dimensions etc, upon which god exists that we have no way to detect or comprehend.
Even before we could detect infrared light, we could comprehend it. It's simply a color.
Sometimes pride, pride in ones intelligence, thinking one can figure everything out, will blind us, when all we need is some faith. Hence blind faith.
Or another way to look at it: "Christianity doesn't make sense; the problem is not Christianity but your insistance that things make sense."
Pardon me if I don't hop on the bus to your corner of crazytown.
I believe you all do acknowledge god, you just refuse him.
If I were as rude as you, I might insist that you were simply an atheist who chose to fool himself with professions of belief in something you knew doesn't exist.
On the other hand, I'm not like you. I'm not so rude and arrogant that I assume I know people's hearts and minds better than they do themselves. I don't dictate to people their own religious beliefs; I take statements of faith - or non-faith - at face value.
I don't believe that any gods exist. It really is that simple.

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crashfrog
Member (Idle past 1497 days)
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Message 102 of 141 (142468)
09-14-2004 10:35 PM
Reply to: Message 101 by sad2kno
09-14-2004 10:04 PM


have you exhausted all possibilities of "there is no god"?
It's not necessary for me to prove the nonexistence of something no one has substantiated the existence of. I didn't say I believed there were no gods; I said I didn't believe there were any gods.
If you disagree, and expect to convince me, the onus is on you to prove that God exists.

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