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by lukan 10 days ago
"The only way anyone can make a blanket statement like that and put "all religions" on equal epistemic footing "

All religion is based on superstitious believes, or do you have counter examples? But I am already quite familiar with the catholic church in particular and do not think they are a counter example in the slightest.
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lo_zamoyski 10 days ago
> All religion is based on superstitious believes

Quite the question-begging claim.

> or do you have counter examples

Begin with the existence of God as self-subsisting being. This can be be shown to be a metaphysical necessity with mathematical certainty [0]; its denial leads to incoherence. Following that, one can show what analogous properties this first cause must have, for instance. Such knowledge is a matter of unaided reason, not faith.

Once you establish such truths, matters of faith (like the divinity of Christ) become much easier to reason about and to accept. They become not only eminently reasonable, but the most probable (e.g., "Lord, liar, or lunatic" trilemma, or implausibility of hoax). This latter claim is a faith claim, because while reason and evidence may strongly suggest the claim, it does not possess the deductive certainty of the first.

[0] https://a.co/d/0gdIMBjg

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lukan 10 days ago
Oh, you were serious.

To be honest, I advise to go to a basi philosophy course once. I did, but won't buy such books, I had that topic covered.

There is no proof that god exists. And there is even less proof that the holy spirit came down and impregnated Mary, or that Jesus ressurected from the dead or any of the other countles examples of superstition.

The claim that god exists has the same validy, that a rock has a soul.

But .. you ain't the first of course to ridicule other religious believe systems while thinking yours is solid.

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lo_zamoyski 9 days ago
I have a graduate background in philosophy. Hopefully that gives you some idea of how impressed I am by your comments.
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lukan 9 days ago
On a catholic academy/university?

Either way, could you then answer this simple question, the believe that a person resurrected from the dead or a human was conceived without sperm are not superstitious?

Declaring it is not, but logical with the axiom there is an allmighty god who made those things happen - has the same quality as declaring there is soul essence in every matter.

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