Reasons that reason is a poor 'god' to follow ...

Originally Posted by steamer

Well, to be fair, we think gods are just things theists imagine

If one looked at the widet possible definition of a 'god' , which everyone would accept as its widest mening , it is that which one most respects , the thing on which one bases one's life...

Thus men speak of moey as the 'god' of some men . it does not mena that money is a spirit or is the creator, or is transcendental , metaphysical, or that a god needs to be a being ...

The essence of a god is simply that one believes in it ...

thus men ave created our own gods and have yet to find out that the God who si seen through love may be the only one who delivers what we truly need in the end....

The other point is that EVERYONE most respects something ... so in this widest sense there are no atheists [not that many atheists accept this of course]

The proof of faith at the basis of reason is perhaps the act of faith that most atheists ignore ... because atheists like to think themselves starting from basics in their thoughts and beliefs... but there are axioms at the basis of reason, and there is paradox too in applying reason as if it were a complete system when we know it cannot be used that way rationally [Godel formal incompleteness theorem 1931]

The pardox then is that most people , including most atheists I know, use reason irrationally and do not acknowledge the dependence of their beliefs as being dependent upon blind faith [in axioms]

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