tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post4660887545744113193..comments2024-03-28T17:09:23.172+00:00Comments on The Thoughts of Chairman Bill: Credo (If I Had One)Chairman Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02104786653126767184noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post-68210901522520600812012-03-07T17:52:48.933+00:002012-03-07T17:52:48.933+00:00One is not worthy!
She, by the way, wasn't ...One is not worthy! <br /><br />She, by the way, wasn't a Calvinist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post-72725987777322553612012-03-07T17:51:51.045+00:002012-03-07T17:51:51.045+00:00I'm still waiting to meet the theist who says ...I'm still waiting to meet the theist who says "yeah it's a lot of superstitious solipsism but it makes me feel good" - that would be an honest person.<br /><br />Not really - it would simply mean that they were not a theist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post-35768875355828956742012-03-07T09:46:12.997+00:002012-03-07T09:46:12.997+00:00Wise words oh atheist master;
If you ask 1000 th...Wise words oh atheist master; <br /><br />If you ask 1000 theists what theism means you'll get 1000 different answers; amusingly they think this means something other than theism is completely man-made? I'm still waiting to meet the theist who says "yeah it's a lot of superstitious solipsism but it makes me feel good" - that would be an honest person.<br /><br />The other mistake they usually make is thinking that atheists simply "don't understand religion", the fact is that most atheists were raised as theists of one kind or another, they know precisely what it's like to be a theist and have rejected it even so.Steve Borthwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13361597018502017407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post-46670129838193117532012-03-07T09:25:38.474+00:002012-03-07T09:25:38.474+00:00Chris: I should has said "religious fundament...Chris: I should has said "religious fundamentalism", rather than merely "fundamentalism".<br /><br />You can't deny that the less a religion says about the nature of God, the less it engages in the nasty side of fundamentalism. The extreme is Buddhism, which says nothing at all about God.<br /><br />All Abrahamic religions seem to have gone through a phase of mysticism, but then dumped it in favour of a search for a personal God.Chairman Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908632282972692269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post-42544695218167282142012-03-07T09:07:45.800+00:002012-03-07T09:07:45.800+00:00"Thus atheists can be as spiritual as the the..."Thus atheists can be as spiritual as the theist, if not more so due to the absence of needlessly extrapolated religious dogma..."<br /><br />You make big presumptions here about theism. Be careful with your needlessly extrapolated non-religious dogma. :)<br /><br />"It is from a rationalistic search for the nature of God (and utter certainty) that fundamentalism arises"<br /><br />Your parenthetical is the point here - it is from a rationalistic search for utter certainty that fundamentalism arises. Theists most definitely do not have a corner on fundamentalism!<br /><br />There's much to like in this rant, but you really need to meet a more diverse crowd of theists and people of such ilk - I suspect the media lens is selling you are distorted perspective on contemporary belief.<br /><br />*waves*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post-55761818787370926542012-03-07T07:42:07.409+00:002012-03-07T07:42:07.409+00:00Ermintrude - you're not the sainted Margaret, ...Ermintrude - you're not the sainted Margaret, are you?Chairman Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908632282972692269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2809146912677894496.post-16423908091456018792012-03-07T07:34:57.893+00:002012-03-07T07:34:57.893+00:00Well, speaking as a Calvinist Cow, I think you hav...Well, speaking as a Calvinist Cow, I think you have us totally wrong.<br /><br />But I'm right there with you on these ....<br /><br />"The incredible beauty and majesty of the universe, the mind-blowing power of quantum mechanics, the enigma of consciousness and the break-up of large banks."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com