Why do some adults believe in god?
Why do some believe the earth is flat?
Why do some believe in alien abductions?
There's all kinds of stupid out there.
Belief in God, the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, and Fairy God Mothers
by frankiespeakin 33 Replies latest watchtower bible
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frankiespeakin
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I prefere to not look at it as stupid but progressive,,remember we came from simple tool making, to making fire which took millions of years, then the wheel, boats and things started comming to our species faster and faster till we reached the age of technology and science. That's not stupidity its progress.
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passwordprotected
Why do some adults believe in god?
Why do some believe the earth is flat?
Why do some believe in alien abductions?
There's all kinds of stupid out there.
Well, that's that settle, then. Good work.
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BurnTheShips
Belief in God, the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, and Fairy God Mothers
Belief in God is not on the same plane as the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, or Fairy God Mothers. We have some of the greatest intellects in history believing in God, and some even defending their belief in their writings.
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John Doe
So burns, you're saying if a great intellect believed in Santa Clause and easter bunny and defended that belief in writing, it would make the belief plausible?
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passwordprotected
So burns, you're saying if a great intellect believed in Santa Clause and easter bunny and defended that belief in writing, it would make the belief plausible?
No, the same as a great intellect saying he/she didn't believe in God somehow making that belief plausible.
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BurnTheShips
So burns, you're saying if a great intellect believed in Santa Clause and easter bunny and defended that belief in writing, it would make the belief plausible?
No.
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John Doe
No.
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Why would that not make it plausible?
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BurnTheShips
If it were plausible, your hypothetical situation would be actual. However, it is neither plausible, nor actual. Hence, no serious believer in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, or the Fairy God Mother. However, from Augustine to Newton, Aquinas to Galileo, Mendel to Collins, there are many serious thinkers, philosophers and scientists that believe in God in some form. I have yet to find one that believes in the Easter Bunny. I am not offering this as proof of the existence of God. I am just offering this as evidence that belief in God is not on the same level as belief in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Fairy God Mothers. To treat them as instances of the same essential phenomenon is a category error.
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John Doe
However, from Augustine to Newton, Aquinas to Galileo, Mendel to Collins, there are many serious thinkers, philosophers and scientists that believe in God in some form.
You've just said that intellectuals' beliefs in something does not make it plausible, yet you go on to cite belief by intellectuals in god as support for your saying that belief in the easter bunny and santa claus is less plausible than belief in god. Can you not sense your blatant contradiction?