God is a coward

[jack]

Sorry, not really. (Well, not necessarily. Uh, I mean, I didn't have any reason to say that, other than as a humorous example of a controversial subject. Argue amongst yourselves if you so wish, but don't blame me. Just look at this bracket, it's amazing how many words saying nothing takes up :))

Where is everyone? My "inbox" has been nearly unclogged of lj updates recently -- have you all become productive or something? Have you all moved to chiark or myspace?

ETA: OK, that seemed to work :)

Comments

Foul!

[passage.livejournal.com]

Oh be fair, if you're going to be pedantic about other's posts, then you have to at least put your posts at a level of accuracy. Obviously there is at most one God, so if Christianity is correct then there's only one candidate on offer.

I think you might want to talk about 'conceptions of God' or 'theories about God' and then argue for the existence of a theory of God where he is a coward. Of course at that point all the sting is removed. A lot of attacks on religion turn out to be perfectly harmless if you stop and make them logically consistent.

[simont]

Er, huh? Who says there's at most one god? Certainly at most one of the conflicting accounts of god(s) is true, but some of those accounts involve more than one god, and I expect there are some pairs of accounts which are mutually non-exclusive so their gods could coexist if necessary.

then argue for the existence of a theory of God where he is a coward

Again, huh? I was under the impression that I was arguing the statement "God is a coward" to be potentially meaningless, not true. Which of us has misunderstood the other?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree with your confusion.

Though, I think maybe the point is that if it were the case that God being a coward were meaningless, then so would God being brave -- so could be viewed as either a good or bad thing if you were so inclined?

Re: Foul!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Please don't fight, guys, we're all mathmos here :)