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- Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:12 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Why do we select warrior gods who can only grow their religions by violence, --- instead of persuasion to a better way o
- Replies: 60
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Re: Why do we select warrior gods who can only grow their religions by violence, --- instead of persuasion to a better w
I don't focus my worship on War Gods. I worship Hapheastus, Bastet, Flora, among others, but I don't pray to war Gods like Ares, Athena, and the Abrahamic God. Not to say that I never would, but in practice I have no interest in conducting RL wars so I don't really feel that sort of connect to War G...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:56 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: !00% Proof Gods Don't Exist: Part Deux.
- Replies: 42
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Re: !00% Proof Gods Don't Exist: Part Deux.
I don't expect profection from my Gods nor local omnipotence so I once again point out that this is really another Christian/Muslim debate with Atheists thread.
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:25 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Panentheism
- Replies: 282
- Views: 82070
Re: Panentheism
I don't think the Christian concept of God and the Neoplatonic concept of The One are compatible ideas. The One does not act, it does not think, it does not have prophets, it does not write books, and it doesn't have commandments. It is beyond existance (not just beyond the universe, but beyond exis...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: S. Hawking's Final Book: There is NO God.
- Replies: 140
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Re: S. Hawking's Final Book: There is NO God.
Like usually these debates seemed to be between the Abrahamic Faiths and Athiests who really only pay attention to those faiths, the rest of us need not apply. If you look at Hawkings final paper, when the origin of the Multiverse, what is described actually matches the Neo Platonic conception of Go...