Human being have a need to be known and know the knower who knows them. This is relation.
Only an All Knowing could know us in full - know all our actions and what is in our hearts.
Therefore such Being is necessary to satisfy this fundamental need.
The need is proof of reality because we are...
Humans do have the same needs. We need sun, we need love.
Look, I appreciate that atheists don't accept the consequences of a godless universe. They just carry on like normal human beings. I'm not saying everyone is conscious of the need. Why?
Because people carry on as though God exists.
They...
I think language causes a lot of confusion to do with religion. A person thinks their outlook is correct - otherwise he/ she wouldn't hold that outlook.
But we know that so many other outlooks exist. This causes problem: am I making a judgement on them being wrong? And, If most of us follow...
Hi, you raise some interesting points about the nature of belief, and while I disagree with your conclusions or start-point, it does go to the heart of the question, if we take the journey to its end
"The lack of capacity is on the part of those
who must invent some " god " to fill some
strange...
I agree with you to a point; and I think especially amongst the causaians, where atheism has taken a particular root, this is the case.
It leaves a gap in their need to understand being, and so this becomes the main battlespace for the question of God's existence (which is taken for granted in...
No, I've made the opposite journey and so have experienced both also.
There's no argument to be made "from happiness" and in fact I should abandon any wish to convince anyone of anything religious or non-religious, because worse than a sales-man, I'm sure I find ways to put people off!
It's an...
Hi thanks for your reply.
It was following up, in my mind, a conversation I'd had with this individual on another thread, and to do with the subjective and objective.
I accept that it is off the point of the argument of the thread - but I guess this happens?
I don't agree with you that we are...
Please reflect on the grammatical structure of this sentence and what it says about what you attributing to a process. Consider whether hidden behind your reverence for Evolutionary Theory and Scientific Method is a deeper need.
Empathy you want to make into Love and Kindness, I can feel it...
You'd have to appreciate his abilities as a composer though, even if you found everything else about him objectionable. If you liked his music - I don't know it well enough myself, though lots of people swear by its genius!
Hello again,
The fact you are speaking to me now, a blinking, breathing being, endowed with speech is the proof you need, but are blinded by familiarity.
What are you? By your own view, you are spacedust, which over time, has developed arms and legs and is able to question and think, and...
Fair enough - I know that the average person in the west does not do this - in our indiviualistic godless society, we do not think beyond the apparent -
But try it, as a little experiment, next time you have coffee. Try saying thank you to a source for all, and see if you get some greater...
Of course, happiness can happen any number of ways :)
But to be thankful for your existence requires One you are thankful to, and that requires (YEs, you guessed it!...)
To put it another way, if you met someone and they said, hi, my name's George, and I can give no thanks for breathing, no...
I think that "atheism" is an illusionary word for people who do acknowledge God, but they give everything a different name.
They say there is morality, and if you push them, they say, hmmm, just because. Or evolution.
They say there is meaning, and if you push them they say, Because I say...