How do i turn the table on Theists?

[Flyingg]

Well…i am waiting.

By your hands but hey, I thought Jesus preached non violence (on humans), so turn the table peacefully

 

[Reivax]

Where do I start?

Hey Al, have not spoken to you in a while!

 

[Perplexity]

Perplexity, I have never seen someone describe their religion as Philosopher. You’ll have to explain to me how that works.

Philosophy is the closest thing in my life to religion

 

[shoe]

Well…i am waiting.

If you were to entertain thoughts about turning “the table on Theists,” I believe that the first thing that you would have to do is to have a believable answer ready for that almost traditional question “why does something exist rather than nothing?” This should not be a problem for atheists and evolutionists since they consider all their theories as believable even though their theories have never happened. Then I think you’ll need to come up with a not so tall tale of the meaning of life, that is, if you believe life has meaning. And if you believe that life does have some sort of purposeful meaning, then you should show evidence. You also may want to show evidence just how and where a person can locate this meaning of life. Also, you probably should give a reliably subjective explanation on just how people can materialistically account for consciousness and free will. And finally, you’ll have to make up a pretty good story for the reason that you believe people are able to distinguish between moral right and wrong; and how they are able to act upon this distinction without a transcendent source.

 

[Boulder257]

Philosophy is the closest thing in my life to religion

Ahhh…gotcha!

 

[Whadyamean]

Well…i am waiting.

I guess this a a parody of the other thread about “How do I turn the table on atheists?” Clearly one can’t, usually, by simple argument. As i said elsewhere, the last refuge of both atheists and the ordinary religious is the mind, or mentality. So the service of argument in those cases is simply to re-enforce and increase the emotional or intellectual charge already present. The only way to discover, not prove, a different and more fundamental (not in the Biblical sense) apprehension of Deity is the method of self inquiry, practiced consciously, or not, as demonstrated by many Catholic Saints, who almost made it, one might say, save for their dogma which colored their cognition of what was happening to them and the final implication of the direction they were going. But nonetheless, like using resistance training, some did very well!