Re: [asa] Sunday School for Atheists...

The law of non-contradiction is still a law -- and to say that God
violates this particular law is to insist on something that is at best,
silly. I think Lewis dealt with this somewhere. We can concoct silly
questions such as: "If God can do anything, then can He make a rock so
big He can't lift it?" Embedded contradictions don't prove anything
other than that we can entertain ourselves with silliness. If religion
A claims that X happened and religion B claims it didn't, then they
can't both be right. That is not the same as passing complete judgment
on both or all religions, only that contradictory claims can't all be
true (Nor will/can God force them to be true.) To abandon this is to
abandon the only tools you and I have to even have any such discussion
as this -- our faith that this is an orderly world in which rational
comprehension is of some value.

--Merv

mlucid@aol.com wrote:
> Christine says:
> > So since all religions seem to contradict each other,
>
> > the law of non-contradiction says either all relgions
>
> > are wrong, or only religion is right. But no one can
>
> > be considered sane who knows this and things they
>
> > could ALL be right.
> You're talking about God here. You can't say that all religions
> can't be right. If God wanted it that way, all religions could be
> just fine and all true. It is God who created a world with multiple
> religions, and while I'm happy with mine, I'm happy as well that
> other people are happy with theirs.
>
> I surely prefer a man who is humbled by his religion than one
> who is not. The operative word again is humbled.
>
> -Mike (Friend of ASA)

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Received on Tue Nov 27 20:33:03 2007