Re:Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
by aristofun on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:22AM
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> C'mon, no atheist is remotely claiming that God doesn't exist even as a concept. You can't possibly think this is what any atheist ever meant?
Personally I don’t care neither abou atheists nor about religious people in general.
I was just answering the question.
Re:Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
by alecbz on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @11:48AM
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> I was just answering the question.
But you misinterpreted what "exists" means in this context.
Re:Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
by aristofun on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:40PM
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And what does it mean exactly?
Re:Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
by alecbz on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @05:06PM
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Existing in a more tangible sense, not existing as a concept.
Re:Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
by aristofun on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:53AM
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Okay, and why exactly existing as a concept is less important for this argument?
Additional question — what religions do you know that explicitly state the existence of god in materialistic sense and not as a non tangible ideal (hence the word idea by the way)?
Please try to answer deeply and not just critisize me for hating atheists, I am not, I just point out very simple but overlooked details that are crucial for such discussions.
C'mon, no atheist is remotely claiming that God doesn't exist even as a concept. You can't possibly think this is what any atheist ever meant?
On the face of it it's almost impossible to claim that something doesn't exist as a concept, since making such a claim creates the concept. Some atheists might claim there are logical inconsistencies in the concept of God, but that's still different from claiming the concept doesn't exist.