Ultimately atheism reduces to pure subjectivism because truth is ultimately judged by the human mind. Truth becomes whatever the individual person decides it is. Only Christianity can account for objective truth because there is a transcendent, absolutely rational, unchanging God who is the ultimate standard of truth
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If one examines rationalism, one is faced with a choice: either reject dialectic socialism or conclude that truth is capable of significance, but only if neotextual cultural theory is valid; otherwise, the task of the writer is social comment. In The Ticket that Exploded, Burroughs affirms rationalism; in The Soft Machine, however, he examines premodern deconceptualism. However, the main theme of the works of Burroughs is a dialectic paradox.
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"Ultimately atheism reduces to pure subjectivism because truth is ultimately judged by the human mind."
- Which is why Christianity was never broken down into heresies, denominations and sects.
Unless, you know, an atheist chooses to follow a different philosophy such as empiricism, or objectivism. You can't decide that people follow a certain belief when you are quickly proven wrong by someone who thinks the opposite is true.
"absolutely rational, unchanging God"
Rational?
"I'm gonna sacrifice myself to myself to create a loophole in a situation (that I created knowing ahead of time that it would all go to shit...) that doesn't actually need a loophole because I already decreed that simply trying to follow my rules (that I openly admit no-one could manage to follow all of them) and repenting when you failed was enough to get into Heaven...)
You fucking call THAT rational???
As for unchanging... that is one hell of a change, so...
Truth becomes whatever the individual person decides it is.
Christianity just substitutes an old book written by a bunch of Middle Easterners for the individual. And that's assuming the book actually tells us what the rational, unchanging "truth" is. In reality, everyone interprets the book to agree with their own previous opinions. That's why we have thousands of different versions of Christianity, all claiming they're right and everyone else isn't.
Only Christianity can account for objective truth because there is a transcendent, absolutely rational, unchanging God who is the ultimate standard of truth
In order to even begin making this argument wouldn't you have to first prove God's existence is true, and back it up with evidence?
Well, good luck with that.
Subjective and objective: Do you know what these words mean?
Subjective perception is subjective. All perception is subjective because all perception is done by subjects. Perception of God is subjective, so regardless of the existence of non-existence of any God, all truth is judged by the human mind, including the truthfulness of God. Therefore, even an objective God's truths are always subjective truths (to humans.)
I meh this. Without the prejudice or any sort of context, it's not fundie, just someone who got in over their heads in philosophy.
there is a transcendent, absolutely rational, unchanging God who is the ultimate standard of truth.
Which explains why there are some 33,000 Protestant denominations. Each of which claims the others are wrong.
oh is that why god needed to kill his own son to save us from his own rules?
is that why he regrets what he does half the time?
yeah you live in a world where 'truth' is fluid just like the rest of us, only we don't lie about it.
Genesis 6:6
The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created--and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground--for I regret that I have made them."
Exodus 32:14
Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
1 Samuel 15:10-11
Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands." And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all night.
Really? Is that why all of you Christians have identical beliefs about who Jesus was and what 'god' is? Oh wait, that's right, you've been arguing since the days of Paul (if he was a real person) about who had the 'true' Christianity.
these people can't handle the fact that there is an underlying, concrete and, ultimately, measurable reality that operates independently of the human mind.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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