tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post4539779113705960782..comments2023-06-24T01:15:34.627-07:00Comments on The Skeptic Zone: im-skepticalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08267710618719895303noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-59751311722623358302017-12-12T03:50:31.678-08:002017-12-12T03:50:31.678-08:00What the great irony here is that Alston is a Chri...What the great irony here is that Alston is a Christian philosopher, and yet, there is no intellectual or academic discipline known as christian philosophy. A rider without a horse to flog.Papalintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818630173726146048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-65305791375476316702017-12-11T18:41:23.546-08:002017-12-11T18:41:23.546-08:00I didn't know Alston had two bouts with atheis...I didn't know Alston had two bouts with atheism. But still, his religious training prevailed.<br /><br />I thought it was interesting that he was involved with Reformed Epistemology, because to me, it represents an intersection between theology and science (regarding the HADD). Both recognize the feeling we have that there is an agent of some kind that enters our consciousness. From there, they take decidedly different paths. Science finds the biological basis for this feeling, while Reformed Epistemology (without evidence or any rational explanation) declares it to be positive knowledge of God. It's pretty clear that Alston never had any desire to gain a scientific understanding. He ran in the opposite direction.im-skepticalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08267710618719895303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-19753523190917551892017-12-11T16:56:37.900-08:002017-12-11T16:56:37.900-08:00What is so galling and a complete waste of intelle...What is so galling and a complete waste of intellect is that despite being a university trained PhD student, Reppert persists in compromising those very investigative and analytical skills of seeking the truth wherever it might lead, to continue peddling superstition and ignorance of a primitive mythos. Papalintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818630173726146048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-18839938185441114682017-12-11T16:47:33.393-08:002017-12-11T16:47:33.393-08:00Absolutely spot on.
skep "Alston rational...Absolutely spot on. <br /><br />skep <i> "Alston rationalizes his embrace of religion as the discovery of "courage"."</i> <br />The only thing he discovered was the courage to believe in religious mumbo-jumbo despite and even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, in exactly the same way that Evangelical Republicans believe that God sent them Donald trump:<br /><i>"Eighty percent of white evangelical voters voted for Donald Trump in the November election.....“Some of them sincerely believe that Donald Trump was ordained by God and actually going to put the right people on the Supreme Court and fight for religious liberty.”</i> <br /><br />In his and Evangelicals' profound ignorance of the sciences of mind they simply are unable to comprehend that their belief system is wholly attributable to and a function of a very creative and overactive Theory of Mind, the HADD; God took an intentional stance to miraculously nudge the elections into Trump's hands despite being the absolute physical, amoral and unethical arsehole that he is this side of the universe, don't you know.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.anglicantheologicalreview.org/static/pdf/articles/MacSwain_88.3.pdf" rel="nofollow">THIS PAPER</a> puts a lie to Alston being an atheist. Disenchanted with his earlier experiences of religion Alston assumed a more tentative, secular stance for some time. <i>"<b>Alston says that he had never been a convinced atheist</b>, and the question of Christian faith decisively re-presented itself during this time."</i> <br />Hardly an atheist. Once again, Reppert overstretches the truth, lying for Jesus. A pretty common tactic.<br />Papalintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818630173726146048noreply@blogger.com