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Re: Religion, Maher Style
Posted by: cassamandra
Date: 10/08/2008 08:55AM
Miles T Wrote:
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> Actually, I saw this movie. I don't think Dr.
> Collins even got a chance to defend his beliefs in
> scientific terms. And, over all, he was the only
> heavyweight in the entire movie on the side of
> creation. The founding fathers were deists. That's
> defined as REASONED belief in the existence of a
> god.
Deism is a form of monism, rejecting Christian (and other) dualisms and depersonalizing/de-anthropomorphizing the divine. It's a lot more specific that way than "reasoned" belief. As Kant demonstrated to the satisfaction of all who read philosophy, there can be no reasoned belief, as the both proof and disproof of existence of god are beyond the power of reason. Hence, you get the moral postulate of god that brackets the question of his/her/its existence and directs you to live as if there were a god.
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> Actually, I saw this movie. I don't think Dr.
> Collins even got a chance to defend his beliefs in
> scientific terms. And, over all, he was the only
> heavyweight in the entire movie on the side of
> creation. The founding fathers were deists. That's
> defined as REASONED belief in the existence of a
> god.
Deism is a form of monism, rejecting Christian (and other) dualisms and depersonalizing/de-anthropomorphizing the divine. It's a lot more specific that way than "reasoned" belief. As Kant demonstrated to the satisfaction of all who read philosophy, there can be no reasoned belief, as the both proof and disproof of existence of god are beyond the power of reason. Hence, you get the moral postulate of god that brackets the question of his/her/its existence and directs you to live as if there were a god.
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