On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you are able to conceive a god without afterlife > I can conceive of a afterlife without God too. > it means you can conceive a non Christian God, > Yes. > which is nice > Certainly nicer than the Christian God who is the most unpleasant character in all of fiction. > but contradicts the main atheist statements you already did in preceding > conversations. > I don't see how. I can conceive of Harry Potter too but that doesn't mean I think it likely he exists, although the probability that Mr. Potter really exists would be far greater than the probability the Christian God exists. > We might try to decide on a definition of "atheism", as that notion is > very unclear, > The only reason its unclear is that your meaning of the word G-O-D is very very unclear; and the reason for that is you've fallen in love with the English word G-O-D even though you've abandoned the idea behind it. For some reason that I don't fully understand you just want to make the following sound with your mouth "I believe in God" and it doesn't matter what the sound means. > I use "God" in the greek sense of Truth > The Greeks believed it was true that Poseidon existed and was the brother of Zeus. I don't. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
