[103254] in Cypherpunks
Re: atheism (was: RE: Democracy... (fwd)) (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Tue Sep 22 11:35:59 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:51:23 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:27:57 -0500
> From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
> Subject: Re: atheism (was: RE: Democracy... (fwd)) (fwd)
> Basically he is saying you can't deny the existence of something if
> you don't know what it is.
That's the rub, in transcendental religions with this as a proviso it
becomes impossible to even talk about God, he transcends the natural world
and escapes any hope of comprehension other than a simple label.
In effect transcendental religions have defined themselves into a circle.
They define God as something undefinable and then claim that anyone who
counters their beliefs is at fault because they can't define God.
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