They do understand that. They just don't think this makes God real. Why is this hard?https://twitter.com/pickledwords/status/884762809665544192 …
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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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