In Reply to: Re: Always a detractor and now a blasphemer posted by Perry on November 16, 2009 at 17:44:20:
I didn't use your link...I don't need negative slogans...this country has enough negativity for my disliking here, which means I am plenty inocculated/confronted with that stuff...doesn't impress me...I figure, you're hugely offended, hurt, disappointed by God...not unlike many Jews, who couldn't believe anymore in a God after the holocaust...I think that is understandable...all the more the "miracle"/grace, that others still can.
You can't apparently.
It seems to me..meaning I don't know, just assuming..you're on this Dawkins-trip...who I think suggested something like that:blasheming openly...if I am not mistaken?
You also remind me of a young former Jehovas witness, whom I visited in Munic in a psychatric institution/ward/hospital...while in TF in the late seventies, I think...he went on some mountain and screamed into the clouds, that if there was really a Jehova he could as well strike him dead (for if not...)...there was no striking dead and that didn't help him either...
Since you're quite intelligent...I would advise you to use a few millions of your plenty more braincells, to occupy yourself with Gödel
I have recently bought a nice book of 2 believing mathematicians...they sum up, what I also figured
1975, before I joined TF (after I deserted math-studies)...if things can remain undecided in the "precise" world of maths, which governs as king and queen the natural sciences...and without the tools of maths hardly anything seems to go...especially nowadays...well, then, dear Perry, then you're a little step from faith...also in God... away..
Even Dawkins cannot be that dumb and stupid of not realising that...but poor fellow...he has only a degree in biology, from what I remember...
The title of the book is: Without faith there is no knowledge....for those who know German...I can only recommend it, written by Kessler and Solymosi...the letter lived before in one of the sattelite-states of the "Russian-fraternity" and used to be a staunch atheist...
"funny things do happen"