Reply #99: Well, as long as your're comfortable.

[Meldread]

:shrug:

I certainly couldn't take that position authentically for the simple reason as I'd feel like I am being dishonest with myself and others. I think it has to do with my (numerous) experiences with Fundamentalists - people who believe that they are absolutely correct and their authority on certain issues (or all issues) cannot be challenged. I consciously set about ensuring that I would not fall into the same trap that they have placed themselves in, and that I feel you placed yourself in.

Not to sound rude or condescending, but I do feel bad for you. Not in a condescending way but because I feel that you've closed your mind completely - it's one thing to take a position, it's another to completely embrace it and throw everything else out the window. It just feels like drinking poison, and instead of poisoning the body, it poisons your mind.

Ahh well, like I said if it makes you comfortable, keep it up I guess. Nice debating with you at least - I just wish we could have made more headway.

:toast:

P.S.


However, we cannot be absolutely certain - in anything

How do you reconcile that with:

The reason I claim that it is fallacious logic is that you are constantly comparing the God issue to absurd examples - examples which can be tested and reasonably proven to be correct or false.

There are two key words in each part. In the first statement the key word is "absolutely" and in the second is "reasonably". You can be reasonably certain/confident of something, just as it is reasonable to believe that aliens will not attack planet Earth while I sleep, but how can I ever be absolutely certain that it won't ever happen? I can't be. I can only be reasonably confident that it won't.