On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:34 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/26/2014 4:19 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
>
> But []~g in contrast... that's not even rational
>
>
> If you read it as "In every possible world g is false and g=Some God",
> it's irrational (unless g entails a contradiction). But that isn't
> atheism. An atheist says "g doesn't exist" and that's prefectly rational
> if g=Yaweh or g=Zeus or g=Baal or... Which is why I said it depends on g.
> If g is "some mystic unifying principle" then I'm agnostic about g. If g
> is some vain despotic theist god, then I'm an atheist about g.
>
But then you are willing, in principle at least, to fight everybody with
bullshit notion of god from your point of view. So religious war becomes
justifiable, in principle. For me, no such nonsense is justifiable when
invoking something not-justifiable. To pretend such is to fuel these
irrational disputes. That's why this confusion between ~[]g and []~g is not
fancy semantic splitting hairs.
It doesn't matter whether your god is a teapot or Zeus. Tells me nothing
about whether you're relationship is weakly questioning or you're prepared
to impose it upon others. ~{}g at least prevents, makes nonsensical any
authoritative/manipulative/political move to impose it on others. Do you
fight/work against Yaweh, Baal and the entire list you keep posting?
Because that's quite a lot of deities to fight, where do you find the time?
;-) PGC
>
> Brent
>
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