"Only God can reveal himself"....he hasn't...but we should believe in him anyway. Neither has the flying spaghetti monster or the tea pot that orbits the moon, but you refuse to believe in either of those.
You need to get over the idea that atheists are just mad that God hasn't done this or that for them. We can't be mad at something we don't believe in.
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10-16-2015, 02:48 AM #31
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10-16-2015, 03:03 AM #32
Is this some weird argument ad populum?
A lack of people not believing it doesn't make it untrue.
A lack of serious philosophical interest?
Aren't most philosophers atheist, wouldn't that mean that theological philosophy is quite the niche subject and has a lack of interest?
So by your standard the atheist doesn't have to defend his views and your beliefs are on shaky ground?
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10-16-2015, 03:28 AM #33
No it is not. You have failed to grasp my point.
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10-16-2015, 03:36 AM #34
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10-16-2015, 04:24 AM #35
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10-16-2015, 04:35 AM #36
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10-16-2015, 04:40 AM #37
Go back and read my background notes for an answer to this. Dentists don't seriously talk about fiber optics? Obstetricians have zero interest in icythology. The point?
What I am saying, is that we don't have anyone seriously debating Nordic Gods in any intellectual context. Or at least, anyone in the academic or intellectual circuit. Maybe there is someone out there somewhere, but the evidence is likely they are not there. The converse is true with theism. There is still a very active and lively debate circuit and some of our best academics meet up to debate the topic. Theists still form a huge part of the worlds population, there are plenty of adults who return to belief after seriously analysing the case etc. There is one key difference.
If I ever encounter someone who has a serious case for Norse Gods, I will listen to his case and debate it. I doubt I'll ever encounter him."When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
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10-16-2015, 04:51 AM #38
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10-16-2015, 05:01 AM #39
I'm saying the very topic itself is not one of philosophical interest, and never could be, due to the categorical difference. It goes back to the dumb "one god further" argument so eloquently dismantled by Feser.
I'm not so sure about the majority of philosophers being atheists. I think that survey you're referring to may be misleading in that it only queried Anglophone academia which would have philosophers reared in the analytic tradition which was pretty much built on hostility to certain philosophical questions like theism.
There are entire regions of the world which we don't have solid data about--such as the European universities with plenty of Catholic philosophers, Asian universities, countries with a surge of Christianity etc."When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
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“Every scientific man in order to preserve his reputation has to say he dislikes metaphysics. What he means is he dislikes having his metaphysics criticized.”
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10-16-2015, 05:01 AM #40
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10-16-2015, 06:24 AM #41
But it was you that brought up that no philosophers defend the Norse Gods I merely pointed out that most that by your standard, since most philosophers lean towards atheism that it looks as though they don't take Jewish mythology seriously either?
It's your argument Ath, not my fault that you shot yourself in the foot.
Like you say you don't have data for other countries so I'm not too sure why you even brought it up.
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10-16-2015, 07:16 AM #42
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10-16-2015, 07:31 AM #43
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10-16-2015, 07:50 AM #44
Odin along with his brothers created the world out of the body of ymir.
1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. The universe has a transcendent cause.
This makes Odin's existence more likely, we have good evidence that premise two is correct in it's description the the universe is finite in the past premise one is supported by intuitive everyday experience and that since "Something" cannot be created from "nothing" I think you'd find that Odin creating the universe "ex-meteria" is more likely than a claim of a god that creates "ex-nihilo".
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10-16-2015, 07:57 AM #45
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10-16-2015, 09:01 AM #46
How is it not consistent, you have to show how it isn't AND in your own words not a copy pasta from Feser.
How many of the prominent odinist defenders have you read?
Admittedly if you can give examples of intuitive everyday creation ex-nihilo you'd be able to post your creator god as a possibility, otherwise creation ex-meteria is much more likely.
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10-16-2015, 09:03 AM #47
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10-16-2015, 09:07 AM #48
Essays on Polytheistic Philosophy of Religion by Edward Butler
http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Polythe.../dp/1105709175Last edited by Ehsaun; 10-16-2015 at 09:14 AM.
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10-16-2015, 09:10 AM #49
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10-16-2015, 03:03 PM #51
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10-16-2015, 05:11 PM #54
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10-16-2015, 05:19 PM #55
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10-16-2015, 08:18 PM #56
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10-16-2015, 08:51 PM #57
Yes, it is an area of philosophical interest, you just don't know what you are talking about.
It's not as much in the West because old faith was systematically buried by the new faith, which is why people call it 'Mythology' in the first place. People were made to abandon their old gods for the new god.
The new god can also be said to be a copy paste of the old gods, from Gilgamesh, to Horus, etc...
The argument that the older gods existed can be said to be actually stronger than the argument that the God with a capital G exists, and this is furthered by you having faith in a god that had his stories 'copied' from those old gods. Surely the original stories must be the more authentic? How could the copy be the true event?
And there is philosophical discussion of the old gods to this day in places where they had 'polytheism' and a stronger understanding of history, such as places that include Buddhism, Japan, etc...
But don't worry, I don't expect a strong response from you, so far in this thread you have been stumbling around, evading points, etc... No offense, I just understand that you don't know what you are talking about. I recommend getting a further education in theism, and studying abroad, you obviously have an interest in it, time to expand it and put it to use.
And at the end of the day, believe whatever you want, just don't try and push it on other people because you wouldn't want that done to you, especially by someone who isn't quite learned in what he is talking about.
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10-16-2015, 08:58 PM #58
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10-16-2015, 09:45 PM #60
It's not at all the same argument. They're two different narratives. What you guys are doing is the equivalent of asking American Republicans to prove the validity of British Labor Party policies. They have no reason to do so.
A Christian has no reason to deny Odin's existence. You guys seem to be operating on the assumption that if any Christian allowed for the reality that Odin existed, then that Christian must necessarily start worshiping Odin, since the only reason they don't worship him is because they don't believe he exists. But it doesn't work that way. Christianity grew up in a world full of pagan gods whose existence the Christians accepted, while refusing to worship them.
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