Very confused argument. People still found things meaningful & essential to them under communist regimes so the idea we're animals is wrong.
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Could be that we're animals who find things meaningful & essential? Just a thought.
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Objects to 'nothing but'. Sees 'We're nothing but a species of animal' as diminishing but 'We're nothing but creations of a God' ennobling
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Says much more about how the writer wants to see himself than what actually does constitute human worth.
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This is common error. If someone sees own value as inherent to their belief system, they imagine ppl without it see themselves as valueless
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If they see 'sacred' - meaningful, moving, essential values - in distinctly religious terms, imagine non-religious to not have any.
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I really want to move on from these repeated arguments abt what atheism/scepticism/rationalism/empiricism etc do & don't mean ...
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...in relation to religion, faith, meaning, morality, worldviews, philosophy etc. We've been having them for too long.
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But it's hard when people refuse to stop being so very wrong about it. Best I can do is not look for these arguments.
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Since reading Everybody is Wrong about God, I can't have these old 'debates' without imagining
@GodDoesnt looking at my tweets like this:pic.twitter.com/9DlgRTvIiI
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However, he looks at everything like that so I don't let it bother me too much. ;-)
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Every culture on the planet has had some kind of spiritual practice/ religion. It's an interesting thought and suggests hardwiring
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the belief that nothing is sacred is sacred to us. WHy can't they accept that?
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Second try: Simple response to the Mr Scruton; yes, that's nice, but is it true? ("it" being "this contention about God being real")
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Nothing is sacred and I don't "hunger for the sacred". And what is a "new atheist"?
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A new atheist is exactly like the old, yet more vocal, rather disrespectful and tremendously social media savvy.
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we don't hunger for the sacred but for the security that surety brings. This can easilly be abused by "false prophets" as it still often is.
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