Until, pertaining to God, an understanding of rational is able to seamlessly integrate words and worlds – definitions and meaning with hard empirical fact/evidence – showing just cause remains as elusive [or even illusory] as ever.
That’s the wherewithal that piques my own interest. If such an integrated argument does manage to convince me, then my dilemma is dissolved. I would no longer believe in an essentially absurd and meaningless world that ends for all eternity in oblivion.
Polemics aside, I’m rooting for Phyllo and James here!!
And yet I recognize that even if I were to be convinced by any particular argument, there may well be an even better one out there — one that [once again] yanks God out from under me.
I will die. Then I will know. Or “I” will never know anything ever again.
Considering the fact that there would at least appear to be a Universe lol - arguing for a God NOT being a possibility would seem to be irrational - at least to me.
That’s the profoundest mystery of all, of course. Why something instead of nothing? Why this something and not another? And given that something certainly seems to exist, God is clearly one explanation for it. But then we are back to the child asking, “Well, who created God?”
Do the theists here among us really have anything approaching a definitive answer for her?
Wouldn’t the atheist at the very least first have to define what he/she means by God and what others mean by God?
Hmmm…
Theists, atheists, deists, agnostics etc., all seem to be in the same boat here.
How can they not acknowledge the gap between what they think they know about all of this here and now and all that would need to be known in order to finally encompass/grasp Existence and Human Reality once and for all.
That’s why my own argument here tends toward the conjecture that God is more likely to be a manifestation of human psychology: the need for comfort and consolation given the “brute facticity” of what may well be an essentially absurd and meaningless world that ends for each of us one by one in oblivion.