It is often said that God is perfect, therefore raising the question of why he would create an imperfect species.
There is no human being that is without his imperfections. Or so it is generally believed. However, like Isaac Newton before me, I am truly convinced that God has imparted the secrets of natural philosophy and true religion to a select few. One of whom is a perfect human being.
Atheism, with its myriad logical flaws, denies God on grounds of imperfection. But overlooks the fact that perfection is rarely exemplified by a single human being. Atheism, in other words, is the complete dismissal of the exclusive possibility of perfection.
I possess secrets few are privy to. Some of which include knowledge of a metaphysical reality.
This metaphysical reality is exhaustively elucidated in man's various and diverse religions. I have penetrated the mystery of religion and united it with science. All under a state of utter perfection.
The "perfect" is always the enemy of "the good". The problem with the ideal of perfection is that it is a man-made state conceived and projected out of his already too flawed nature. So we need to question whether it is even a realistic value. Like other empty attributes like virginity and holiness.
If however it is real, it therefore remains only eternally abstract and absolute, like Plato's ideal of Forms. Like the perfect cube or sphere, nowhere turning up in actual physical reality and yet conceptually defining its many rough approximations found there. My suspicion is that it is an overidealization of moral behavior leading to endless struggle and disappointment for we less than perfect mortals. For that reason alone it should be thrown into the big dumpster of historically outdated if not harmful ideas. Nobody can love a perfect being. We are bound together rather by our shared faults and shortcomings.
(Sep 25, 2025 10:36 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]The "perfect" is always the enemy of "the good". The problem with the ideal of perfection is that it is a man-made state conceived and projected out of his already too flawed nature. So we need to question whether it is even a realistic value. Like other empty attributes like virginity and holiness.
If however it is real, it therefore remains only eternally abstract and absolute, like Plato's ideal of Forms. Like the perfect cube or sphere, nowhere turning up in actual physical reality and yet conceptually defining its many rough approximations found there. My suspicion is that it is an overidealization of moral behavior leading to endless struggle and disappointment for we less than perfect mortals. For that reason alone it should be thrown into the big dumpster of historically outdated if not harmful ideas. Nobody can love a perfect being. We are bound together rather by our shared faults and shortcomings.
Too often do atheists reject God on the basis of human imperfection. Needlessly conflating it with arbitrary moral standards thereby dismissing God as the image of a fascist dictator.
I responded to my thread on this very topic today:
Quote:It Aint Necessarily So said:
You don't know what atheism is.
So is Superman as a reality.
Neither is Superman.
That's something you need to consider more than the atheist. You're a theist, the faith-based thinker, making you vulnerable. I wont be drinking Kool-Aid in some theist religious commune like Jonestown nor holing up with religious lunatics as many did at Waco. I have no plans to hitch a ride on a comet. That's for the lotus eaters. That's your world - the world of faith.
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If I may borrow Langan's mind=reality proposition for argument's sake. There is a complete absence of separation between reality and mind. There is a higher dimension that contains the separation between reality and mind, meaning their separation is not absolute.
Your claim that I am basing all of this on faith is again false. My God belief is based on a higher level of logic than that of the atheist.