On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> >> If, as so many have, you redefine the word "God" to mean "a power >> greater than myself" then I am a theist who firmly believes in God because >> I believe that bulldozers exist. >> > > > Bulldozers are not responsible for your existence. Both my parents were bulldozer drivers who first met at a bulldozer convention. So a bulldozer is God. > one consistent notion of God is enough to make atheism into a dogmatic > (non rational) belief > There is no way to make sense out of the notion of God, but you can redefine the word "God" so radically that it becomes virtually unrecognizable to the billions of religious on this planet, and then and only then does the word "God" correspond with something that actually exists, even if there is already plenty of perfectly good words for that thing. People just want to say they believe in G-O-D, what the word actually means is unimportant. > I have never met a theologian genuinely believing in both omnipotence and > omniscience. > I've had 13 years of formal religious training and I never met a theologian who didn't preach that God was omnipotent and omniscient. I don't know how many genuinely believed in the bullshit they were spouting but I'd guess most of them did, certainly the vast majority of those listening to the crap swallowed every word of it, in fact I think I was the only one who did not. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
