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06 Dec 2013, 8:24 am

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4. God/(s) of the various religions of the world are suspiciously anthropomorphic and concerned with human affairs for transcendental beings.

Why shouldn't they be? It's an anthropomorphic assumption, from humans' both finiteness and mean spiritedness towards each other, that a big being is in any way logically bound to be uncaring about small beings.

Can't define "transcendental", but an infinite being, at least, who consists of the total of all of us finite beings, would have a very logical self-interested reason [tocare about us. His own discomfort. Everything that happens to us would be a detectable feelable itch of sorts.



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07 Dec 2013, 10:01 am

Hes make believe! :D


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07 Dec 2013, 3:28 pm

tern wrote:
FabianV wrote:
4. God/(s) of the various religions of the world are suspiciously anthropomorphic and concerned with human affairs for transcendental beings.

Why shouldn't they be? It's an anthropomorphic assumption, from humans' both finiteness and mean spiritedness towards each other, that a big being is in any way logically bound to be uncaring about small beings.

Can't define "transcendental", but an infinite being, at least, who consists of the total of all of us finite beings, would have a very logical self-interested reason [tocare about us. His own discomfort. Everything that happens to us would be a detectable feelable itch of sorts.


That's precisely the point though. How do you get from the position of there being a creator to the position that the creator cares about what holy days you observe? Is there any abstract reasoning that could bring you to that point, any evidence you can submit in favour of that? The burden of proof is, after all, on the person making the claim (the claim being that there is a creator, and he has a particular interest in our buisness.), an atheist simply makes no such claim.



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07 Dec 2013, 6:54 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1msS71xL00[/youtube] This is what a lot of Christians in my country believe. :roll:


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