The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150410   Message #3505120
Posted By: Amos
18-Apr-13 - 12:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Non-belief in a god is not a religion
Subject: RE: BS: Non-belief in a god is not a religion
The bottom line is that you cannot clearly take a stand on a proposition whose terms have not been defined. And I think the proposition "There is a God", as it is blithely being debated here, is essentially extremely ambiguous. As a result this becomes a carousel married to a roller-coaster.   Joe's remark ("sigh") is completely understandable.

I personally suspect that the reason the terms have not been defined is because there cannot be a common definition for a phenomenon which is entirely personal. The idea of insisting on an "objective" definition for something that is only found in the subjective universe of one individual at a time is ludicrous on the face of it.

This has nothing to do with whether that something does or does not exist in those individual world-views. But it does indicate that there is no way it can legitimately be another person's concern.