Some Random Bullshit I Don't Approve Of (was: Dom's Atheist Thread) — Page 3

if all atheists had signatures as ugly as mine this forum would be a better place

Darth Id said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Or perhaps God -- being an infinitely non-human entity far beyond our comprehension -- has concepts of good and evil, pleasure and pain that are completely alien to ours.

 

In other words, if God doesn't fit into a stereotypical caricature, you don't want to talk about Them. God either has to be a bloodthirsty tyrant or a hippie pacifist; any other concepts of God -- especially concepts of God that paint human mores as finite/trivial -- aren't worth discussing.

 No the point is that if everyone has his own unique, idiosyncratic "concept" of "God", then nobody actually believes in the same thing.  Everyone just fabricates his own cosmic ghost-blankie and calls it "God".  It's like if you said "I love chocolate ice cream," and I said "I also love chocolate ice cream!" but actually what nobody knows is that at night, in my basement, I secretly call a squashed cockroach "chocolate ice cream" and pray to it.  We ain't talking about the same thing, and it's utterly meaningless for us to start a "Chocolate Ice Cream Lovers' Club."

 ...remind me not to allow you to serve dessert... ;-)

Dom, I don't know if this is intentionally, but you are quite nicely backing up my argument from Warbler's thread. :)