#5 here. No offense, but I'm surprised there were so many #1's. Glad we have some variety on the forum.
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Originally Posted by Moniker42  Yep, but the worst part about religion is that many of them are actually reasonable and sensible so I can't just disregard all of them as crazy unfortunately  |
Precisely why all these matters are so complicated. The moment you declare one belief a farse, you're met by a bunch of intelligent seeming people who disagree.
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Originally Posted by Moniker42 I voted #6 above based on the assumption that the poll referred to a loving, caring , ubiquitous God otherwise known as the Western God. |
Dawkins' book aims at supernaturalism in general, and though he does clarify the difference between a pantheistic notion of some sort of supernatural vs. traditional theism, I think his spectrum is mean to apply to any notion of God or gods.
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Originally Posted by hairy_Palms there are many reasoning theists, but they generally seem to box off religion as something that cant be reasoned, which is wrong, everything should be subject to the same standards. |
Good point -- and Dawkins spends no inconsiderable amount of verbiage discounting the idea of science & religion as separate realms of truth-seeking.
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