tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post114796896537655701..comments2023-08-11T10:04:41.498-05:00Comments on Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: Is Plurality a Serious Problem for Religion?Sandalstrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1150417119160489152006-06-15T19:18:00.000-05:002006-06-15T19:18:00.000-05:00Anonymous pot shots from people who don't bother t...Anonymous pot shots from people who don't bother to read my writing in context won't be tolerated here.<BR/><BR/>Bad form. Bad form.Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1148514622030174362006-05-24T18:50:00.000-05:002006-05-24T18:50:00.000-05:00Chris,just took a quick read through your final po...Chris,<BR/><BR/>just took a quick read through your final post here: you have thought things through in a most concise way. As a fellow Lewis fan, I remember in <I>Pilgrim's Regress</I> when he note that atheism could be wish-fulfillment. The problem is that atheism can lead to the existential crisis, often does at least for a time in sensitive people or with those who had faith and then lose Tenaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825416797769424875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1148389460321632552006-05-23T08:04:00.000-05:002006-05-23T08:04:00.000-05:00John,Thanks for the comment, and also thank you fo...John,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment, and also thank you for reminding me of the evolutionary take on functional reductionism in religion. My college biology professor loaned me that E.O. Wilson book, and I was much impressed with it.<BR/><BR/>My response to your question will be brief, as I don't have enough time to give it all of the attention that it deserves.<BR/><BR/>Your comment is, if I Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1148212386347161702006-05-21T06:53:00.000-05:002006-05-21T06:53:00.000-05:00DagoodS,It is Sunday morning, and I am about to he...DagoodS,<BR/><BR/>It is Sunday morning, and I am about to head out the door to church, but I wanted to give your excellent comment (which I read as I checked my email this morning, my most persistent addiction!) an initial response.<BR/><BR/>We agree completely about two important things:<BR/><BR/>1. Ideas about God are in competition.<BR/><BR/>2. This competition (that the truth value of any Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1148161079295219082006-05-20T16:37:00.000-05:002006-05-20T16:37:00.000-05:00I read this post and comments yesterday, and I've ...I read this post and comments yesterday, and I've been letting them gestate. Both Dagoods and Sandalstraps make good arguments, I think. It's tough to say who is right or wrong about the non-material.<BR/><BR/>In some ways they seem to be looking at the same data with very different lenses. I do think, though, that when S says he is a pluralist he means God (for him, the Christian God) has Tenaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825416797769424875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1148054912072046882006-05-19T11:08:00.000-05:002006-05-19T11:08:00.000-05:00Good post, Sandalstraps. I enjoyed it very much (...Good post, Sandalstraps. I enjoyed it very much (although that should not come as a surprise.)<BR/><BR/>A few points of clarification, at least from my position in this whole affair. We are not talking about competing religions. We are talking about competing depictions of God(s). A claim of monotheism precludes polytheism. A claim of a personal God precludes a disinterested Deistic God. It DagoodShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04557451438888314932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1147981921334868032006-05-18T14:52:00.000-05:002006-05-18T14:52:00.000-05:00As usual, an excellent post and too rich for me to...As usual, an excellent post and too rich for me to do justice to with a quick comment -- but I will anyway. <BR/><BR/>I will speak from my 25 years of experience of being an atheist. You ask about atheists advancing and argument. I think it is a good thing to have in mind that there are different ways of being an atheist. One is to identify yourself as such and attach a great amounty of personal Liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.com