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Dicky Underpants

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Re: Searching for GOD...
« Reply #52125 on: June 16, 2025, 07:08:51 PM »
You seem to think that if you could only get those damned atheists to concede there is a necessary being, your task is achieved.No I have said that even mere intellectual assent does not a Christian make You have the air of a man who complains about the shit around him, yet fails to check his own underpants.
Yea, right. And every thinking person throughout history who became aware of the unimaginable horrors that have existed in the world through the vast epochs of evolution never ever considered they might be contributing to some extent? Woddywant me to do, stop digging the garden in case I cut a worm in two? Does it make Christians feel better if they keep beating their breasts saying "Woe is me, sinner that I am"?
I've seen the crippling effect of guilt on people, and sometimes the Christian remedy of saying "You are forgiven" can provide relief. You seem to want all of us to wallow in collective guilt.
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

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Re: Searching for GOD...
« Reply #52126 on: June 16, 2025, 09:09:54 PM »
I think that one mans critical thinking is another mans scientism, no matter what one pleads.
What you wish to think is entirely up to you but as I am not into scientism, that isn't of any significance for me.

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Why is God invisible in the physical sense?

I asked for evidence of God, not particularly its visibility.

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Observation we are told affects the observed God is unchanging and is not observed.

Is this supposed to be two sentences?  In which case, the second sentence is just a rather vague assertion

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One might also ponder what something that is everywhere at anytime looks like to our eyes.

Again, I am asking for evidence for God, not what it looks like.

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So much for physicality. But there are other ways of seeing....and avoiding seeing.

Or, alternatively, one can convince oneself that god is being 'seen' .... and avoiding that it is not being 'seen' at all. Your particular god is supposed to have come to earth in the human form of Jesus, so, so much for physicality indeed.

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That is the purpose of philosophy and conscience.

As far as conscience goes, there is biological evidence that it resides in the brain and it may have evolved as a social survival mechanism. As far as philosophy is concerned, there are many different and often conflicting ideas about what god is or what god is not or even if there is a god.

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