See, there you go again. My outlook is “too bleak”. But not because you actually address my points above and offer ways in which one might think and feel about them in a less bleak manner.
No, my outlook is just too bleak period. And it must be irrational simply because it is too bleak.
It would be like particular Jews in the early days of Nazi Germany noting ominous things about Hitler, and other Jews saying, no, that’s just too bleak to be true. Or those reacting to Nietzsche’s “God is dead” speculations back then and thinking, “No God? No way! That’s just too bleak to contemplate!!”
And, yeah, the world as we know it to be is a very bleak place if there is no ultimately loving, just and merciful God up there or out there somewhere. You won’t get an argument from me about that.
But what about this God, given the points I make above?
Nope, let’s not go there, right?
I hear you! Or, rather, I did back when my own belief in the Christian God started crumbling. Now, for me, it’s one or another rendition of this: youtu.be/VKcAYMb5uk4
And, given that, all I can do is to come into places like this and hope against hope that there are others intelligent enough to yank me up out of that frame of mind. But that starts with him or her at least addressing my points.
Where are you going here?
Note to others:
Where do you think he is going here?
[b][i]Look, you once asked me not to include posts of yours in my “on discussing god and religion” thread. And I stopped doing it.
Same here. If my posts anger and disturb you as much as [to me] they seem to, just ask me to stop responding to anything that you post here at ILP.
And I will stop.[/i][/b]
Edit:
I do respect you here. Unlike the Kids and the fulminating fanatics, you clearly take the time to, introspectively, think through in your own way the fundamentally important questions revolving around, “how ought one to live?”
Given “I and Thou”.
But you are either willing to respect the intelligence of those who don’t share your own “leap of faith” or “wager” in regard to God and religion or you need to ask yourself why you don’t or won’t or can’t.