On 12 Jan 2015, at 22:39, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/12/2015 8:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Atheism is a variant of christiniaty, because for non atheist non
christian, "God", like any term in a theory, is defined by axioms
or semi-axioms indeed.
I suppose by "semi-axioms" you mean definitions by description, like
"ground of all being" or "creator of the universe" or "that of which
we cannot speak" - which are used to define "God" by Christian
theologians too. But I'll bet you $100 that if we pick a person at
random who is neither a Christian nor an atheist and ask him if
"God" refers to a superpowerful, immortal person who judges human
behavior he'll say "Yes".
If you pick a random person and asks her some principle of mechanics,
they are usually wrong on this.
That's my point, if we allow to reason in the field of theology, we
get counter-intuitive definitions and results. That's science.
Very often, the people are wrong, and doubly so, when the domain is
still in the hand of non academical authoritarianist authorities, and
this since centuries.
Bruno
Brent
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