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What If You Were Born Another Religion?

Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
Alien said:
So if you were never introduced to the idea of god or a religion in a hypothetical situation, you'd still believe because you have direct personal experiences. This doesn't make sense. What kind of experiences? You wouldn't be able to base these experiences to anything pertaining to God or Religion because it was never introduced to you. So how exactly are you believing in something that hypothetically is going to be unknown to you?
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It's called theophany, and it's probably where we got the idea of God in the first place.

Tell me, if you can't believe anything that wasn't taught to you, where do new ideas come from? Not just religion, but science, politics, everything.
 
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Alien

I Fly Space.
Storm said:
It's called theophany, and it's probably where we got the idea of God in the first place.

Tell me, if you can't believe anything that wasn't taught to you, where do new ideas come from? Not just religion, but science, politics, everything.
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Exactly, we came to the "Idea" of god. That is all I wanted to get out of you in this conversation. And I belive things that are taught to me, I just have a hard time believing things that can't be proven. If there was no religion, or concept of god, we would have to create one....which is what we did. Again, it's all in our heads. If we can imagine it, it could be real, doesn't mean it is real though.
 
Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
Alien said:
Exactly, we came to the "Idea" of god. That is all I wanted to get out of you in this conversation. And I belive things that are taught to me, I just have a hard time believing things that can't be proven. If there was no religion, or concept of god, we would have to create one....which is what we did. Again, it's all in our heads. If we can imagine it, it could be real, doesn't mean it is real though.
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Non sequitur. The fact that we conceive of God(s) does not show "it's all in our heads." We also conceive of everything else.
 
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Alien

I Fly Space.
Storm said:
Non sequitur. The fact that we conceive of God(s) does not show "it's all in our heads." We also conceive of everything else.
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It's not in our heads? You said it yourself, we "came to the idea of a god". So where did we think it up if not in our heads?

We can touch those other things we conceive, we can't touch god. The things we can't touch are simply emotions, perceptions and feelings are they not? What are they?
 
Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
Alien said:
It's not in our heads? You said it yourself, we "came to the idea of a god". So where did we think it up if not in our heads?

We can touch those other things we conceive, we can't touch god. The things we can't touch are simply emotions, perceptions and feelings are they not? What are they?
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We cannot touch love, or justice, or ethics.

It is, as you said perception. Perception implies there is something to be perceived.
 
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