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Originally posted by stuartj
Whats more rational? That the earth is 6000 years old, or that the earth is many millions of years old. That Jesus' mother was entered by the Holy Spirit, or knocked up by Joseph. That Noah built a really big boat and brought the animals in two by two, or that this just silly? That JC rose form the dead and ascended to Heaven, or that saying so has been the basis of what has become the most powerful and richest social institution in the world? That if you had been nborn in another culture you would probably be just as convinced of ist god, and that I still wouldnt be?
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The funny part, Stu, is that we're both looking at the same facts. It isn't like either of us has some secret storehouse of data that we're not telling the other person about. If you approach the world saying "There is no God," then clearly, the universe must be old, and that whole Jesus thing was a fairy tale, and so on. I disagree with this position, but a reasonably coherent viewpoint can certainly be reached that way. I don't ask you to change, but I do ask you to recognize that the viewpoint reached by approaching the world from the perspective of theism is not fantastically irrational.
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As a Xtian you are required to reject all other gods. I forget whose quote it is (and Im bound to be misquoting) but- "we are both aethists. You however believe in one more god than I do. When you understand why you reject all other gods, you will understand why I reject yours."
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I still like that quote, despite the fact that I disagree with it.
I could modify it slightly: "We're both theists. You, however, believe in one fewer God than I do..."
Dan