Comments on: Looking for a god, or a Savior? http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/01/30/looking-for-a-god-or-a-savior/ Music - Media - Faith Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Roger http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/01/30/looking-for-a-god-or-a-savior/#comment-385 Roger Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:19:02 +0000 http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/01/30/looking-for-a-god-or-a-savior/#comment-385 The philosophies of man are built upon views that are subject to change with time...as you have pointed out. Those that appear to be solid at one point in time, become obsolete at a later time. However, the constant continues to be our sin nature. Man is not progressing over time in regards to this. So the problem still remains. The philosophies of man are built upon views that are subject to change with time…as you have pointed out. Those that appear to be solid at one point in time, become obsolete at a later time. However, the constant continues to be our sin nature. Man is not progressing over time in regards to this. So the problem still remains.

]]> By: Leighton http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/01/30/looking-for-a-god-or-a-savior/#comment-381 Leighton Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:00:26 +0000 http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/01/30/looking-for-a-god-or-a-savior/#comment-381 Well, I certainly can't speak for all atheists (we're a pretty heterogeneous bunch), but it's worth pointing out that not every sentence that uses the word "reason" has any connection to reason or reasoning. That particular citation is an example of what Philosophy 101 students call a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur">non sequitur</a>. In any case, the idea that every concept ought to reduce to logic and empirical examination died more or less at the same time as logical positivism a few decades back; I have yet to find any actual living, breathing person who really thinks that everything in life is reducible to reason. Those few who claim such a thing (and their practice isn't quite as smooth as their rhetoric) tend to belong to what I fondly call the "cult of reason". Me, I'd rather use reason than proselytize for it. Best, Leighton Well, I certainly can’t speak for all atheists (we’re a pretty heterogeneous bunch), but it’s worth pointing out that not every sentence that uses the word “reason” has any connection to reason or reasoning. That particular citation is an example of what Philosophy 101 students call a non sequitur.

In any case, the idea that every concept ought to reduce to logic and empirical examination died more or less at the same time as logical positivism a few decades back; I have yet to find any actual living, breathing person who really thinks that everything in life is reducible to reason. Those few who claim such a thing (and their practice isn’t quite as smooth as their rhetoric) tend to belong to what I fondly call the “cult of reason”. Me, I’d rather use reason than proselytize for it.

Best,
Leighton

]]> By: Scott http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/01/30/looking-for-a-god-or-a-savior/#comment-380 Scott Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:40:10 +0000 http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/01/30/looking-for-a-god-or-a-savior/#comment-380 Excellent. Excellent.

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