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Re:Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought by HeroOfAges on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:51PM (#14370987)
I've always found it hard to believe that any human being that ever lived would even begin to understand the intentions of such an entity. It would be like the ants that you've placed in an ant farm claiming to understand why they were placed in the ant farm in the first place and using that knowledge to control the other ants.
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Re:Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought by foldr on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:12PM (#14371138)
That is why most religions have a revelatory component. Hardly anyone thinks that you could figure out from first principles what God's intentions are. But he can tell you his intentions if he wants to.
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Re:Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought by Koshkin on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:28PM (#14372180)
I seriously doubt that you could explain your intentions to an ant (even if you wanted to, for some reason).
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Re:Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought by foldr on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:00AM (#14374169)
At the very least, if God gives us commands, we can understand the commands and obey them. I don't see how you could doubt that's possible (on the hypothesis that God does exist).
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