On 10/16/2014 12:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 16 Oct 2014, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote:
Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you
must have a definite idea of what "Santa Claus" refers to and therefore you do believe
in Santa Claus. A curious inference for a logician.
Brent, are you trying to compete with John Clark, in attributing me things I have never
said.
All what I said is that Atheists and Christian defend the same conception of God. The
atheists defend that conception so that they can announce proudly to the world that
there is NO god.
And doing so, they share the literalism of the fundamentalist christians.
The don't "defend the concept", they accept that usage defines the word. And when careful
in philosophical discourse they make it explicit that they mean the god the theism, to
distinguish this from the god of deism and from abstract principles of organization and
love and all the other things that people have said are "god" in order to manipulate
others or comfort themselves.
Brent
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