tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post4220572967590440139..comments2024-03-14T08:15:15.207-07:00Comments on CADRE Comments: Self Selected Truths: the Atheist Ideology of the "Fortress of Facts"BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01967809861892681780noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-46137123501006286862011-10-13T10:59:01.597-07:002011-10-13T10:59:01.597-07:001) Empirical science created the nuclear bomb, mus...1) Empirical science created the nuclear bomb, mustard gas, hydrogenated oils, artificial sweetners, anthrax, Marxism, internt porn, LSD, meth... etc. It is cruel and evil<br /><br />2) Abstract philiosophy is a product of our high evolutionary status as intellectual beings. It produces a magnified and intensified intellect.<br /><br />3) Therefore, we should base our beliefs on our abstract Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-18915654582407517392011-10-03T20:04:45.722-07:002011-10-03T20:04:45.722-07:00I know this might not be the right forum for this ...I know this might not be the right forum for this question, but I would like to know how to respond to a standard line against the resurrection. Basically, someone says there is more evidence of, say, UFO's than for Jesus' Resurrection, and then provide things like eyewitness stories, visions etc. The point they try to make is this: anything that you might say to dismiss those stories Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-71467967976740668422011-10-03T10:06:17.296-07:002011-10-03T10:06:17.296-07:00I think you have a good point there. my aim was to...I think you have a good point there. my aim was to undermine the fortress of facts mentality on carm. The idea that we have this big moutian of facts that's all proved by science you don't' have a single fact that proves God.<br /><br />My overall philosophical and theological modus oporandi is to assume that the proving of the existence of god is a mistaken enterprise to begin with. Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-13701936155107309332011-10-02T18:42:17.144-07:002011-10-02T18:42:17.144-07:00At the risk of being predicable, I'll stay in ...At the risk of being predicable, I'll stay in character here: Jesus is why I believe in God. Jesus is not abstract. <br /><br />Were you looking for a way to open the conversation to belief in God, or to acknowledgment of the abstract? I guess it all depends on which angle you're going for. <br /><br />For the record I don't think "abstract philosophy" has been well-defined;Weekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.com