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Originally Posted by Brendan
Furthermore, I feel like the reason we can't disprove God anymore than we can prove God is because, we're told that God is sublime..
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Precisely that appears to be the case. When we are told that God is sublime, we are often led to believe that God is something so otherworldly that we will never be able to understand him. Such obscurantism is common in all religions and philosophies that include the terminology of God. As if the purpose of that notion was to mystify.
Yet, inevitably, we speculate about who or what God may be (because this notion was brought to our attention, we cannot help but wonder about its essence further.)
As a basic fact of logic, if we are trying to prove anything about any particular thing, we need to know what this thing is. Yet in the case of God, we do not know, because God is not clearly defined. Thus asking about the qualities of God is just like asking about how many seats the theater has, when we do not exactly know what the theatre is.
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Originally Posted by Brendan
They take away deep meanings and philosophies on living life regardless..
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The reason for this is because they do not think things through. As a result believe in things that they do not understand. For instance, a lot of people will claim to believe in God, yet will not be able to clearly explain what God is. Hence, there is no meaning to their ideas because they do not know what their ideas are. This is a result of their thoughtlessness which is precisely the problem.
What 'God' is, is certainly a very interesting topic, and important with regard to building a complete view of the world, one that also badly needs further clarification ( as all the equivocations of this word evince), so I am definitely glad we have another thread on this subject.