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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Steve Mundie

    This is what happens. People insist that the only way to talk about God is the way he's always been talked about - going on theological and philosophical assumptions. If they want to try another way, it must be because they're incapable of doing that.https://twitter.com/SteveMundie/status/971228315477569536 …

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    Steve Mundie @SteveMundie
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    I think it’s a category mistake. For instance, Dawkins seems incapable of grasping the idea of Being qua Being, therefore God must be a form of being akin to radishes or unicorns and just as subject to scientific inquiry.
    7:57 PM - 6 Mar 2018
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6

        It's this. For a long time Taylor, seems to understand that Dawkins was arguing for believing in things on the basis of evidence. Then it all goes horribly wrong. From my essay:pic.twitter.com/JdBybQVmSS

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6

        I could just as easily say 'The longstanding theological assumption that God is a perfect & so necessary being who is consequently self-existent & ontologically independent flies in the face of the rationalist idea that this is all a load of meaningless bollocks.” What now?

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      2. Aaron Gross‏ @Rongwrong_ Mar 6
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        But if Dawkins is talking about God as if he were *a* being rather than Being, then he's not even talking about God, at least not the one Christians believe in. He's talking about something totally different, maybe some kind of god like Zeus. It's not a matter of "assumptions."

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6
        Replying to @Rongwrong_

        God is an assumption and so is 'being' but Dawkins was looking at the scientific claims made by Christianity.

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      4. Aaron Gross‏ @Rongwrong_ Mar 6
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Sorry, I took that tweet you quoted about Dawkins and being/Being at face value. Thought that was the issue you were arguing about.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6
        Replying to @Rongwrong_

        Dawkins doesn't address theology, no.

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      1. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 6
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        ...sounds like orc mischief* to me. *special pleading

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      2. Rick von SLAYger‏ @RickVonJaeger Mar 6
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        jfc

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      3. (((Just a Flâneur))) [All Hallows’ #Blockchain]‏ @EnlightFundy Mar 6
        Replying to @RickVonJaeger @OldSaintRiot @HPluckrose

        he dead

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      4. Rick von SLAYger‏ @RickVonJaeger Mar 6
        Replying to @EnlightFundy @HPluckrose

        o dam .O.

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      5. (((Just a Flâneur))) [All Hallows’ #Blockchain]‏ @EnlightFundy Mar 6
        Replying to @RickVonJaeger @OldSaintRiot @HPluckrose

        o_O

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