On May 19, 9:59 am, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/5/18 omprem <[email protected]>
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> > OMPREM: To ask for objective proof of religious matter is merely to
> > assert the primacy of empiricism in areas that are totally beyond the
> > jurisdiction of empiricism. However, one can experience the truth of
> > the Divine by employing the methods suggested by the various
> > religions.
>
> In your experience, how reliable and trustworthy are these religious methods
> of knowing the truth of something? Have you found one particular method more
> accurate than another? It strikes me that the various religions out there
> have their own claims on truth and they very often contradict each other.
> Can you explain this?
OMPREM: First, and this is what atheists find difficult to grasp,
religious methods are not about "knowing the truth of something". That
mindset is a carryover from empiricism. Religious methods are about
attuning one's consciousness to that something.
And yes, I can explain different religions and different methods.
Each religion and each method is intended to appeal to people of
certain abilities, disabilities, talents and biases due to their
karmic loads in this lifetime. Those various methods and religions
however have the same goal: they are different paths to the top of the
same mountain, so to speak.
>
> I understand why you would make some kind Gouldian appeal to non-overlapping
> magesteria. I'm interest to know whether you are actually strict about this
> in your own reasoning. Very often I see theists, when pushed to explain
> certain points, breaking NOMA... and thus disappearing in a puff of logic.
> Back to the drawing board, etc.
>
> Ian
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