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Although I have not interacted on this forum in a long time, I would say that during the time I was actively posting my point of view evolved quite a bit. It is helpful to work through personal issues publicly and experience a variety of input from other perspectives.

You would first have to define specifically what it is. If it's purely conceptual then it doesn't have to be existential. If it is existential, then we have to know exactly what, of itself, it is. I can envision a strictly metaphysical application for a Prime Mover, as it were, but I can't...

Blessed are the cheese makers.

Well, if you made your idol in a mold, that wouldn't technically be a graven image.

I am, for all intents and purposes, an atheist. I just enjoy splitting hairs on definitions.

Sure there is, otherwise they wouldn't have those symbols with A- for atheist on them. It's just like the fish symbol Xtians have on their cars.

The reason that I self identify as an agnostic rather than an atheist has to do with intellectual honesty. I cannot take the position that there is no God because God is not a definable thing. I can't even begin to consider whether there is or isn't a God without a definition of what it is, so...

Not with leprechauns, or sasquatches, or unicorns. Those things are beyond ridiculous. But I did demonstrate that belief is a matter of choice, and that it occurs routinely in one's every day thought processes.

One of the functions of morality is to set the bar for what evil is permissible. Evil is most often perpetrated in the fight against evil, or in the service of some ostensibly greater good.

I prefer agnostic. It leaves room for ambiguity, and doesn't define me in terms of what I am not.

If we don't choose to believe things, who or what does? A belief is a temporary position taken in the absence of a complete set of facts. I believe that Honda motorcycles are more reliable than Harley Davidson motorcycles. I chose to believe that based on personal and anecdotal evidence...

What is the origin of belief? How did we begin to believe? What is the original article of belief? It seems to me that belief is like a rickety bridge cantilevered out over the fact-less chasm toward an island of presumed truth hidden in the fog. Can we actually reach that island, or do we...

Well, I think that someone should say what God is. Take out a patent that says what It is and trademark it. That way we'd all know what God TM is, like we know what Pepsi is. Or maybe we could just explain what God does in psychological terms and dispense with the loaded label. God seems...

That's true enough.

God is a useless concept. No one knows what God is. I think we need to stop searching for the divine "other" and try to self-actuate from the ground up. I'm finding this difficult I must admit, but searching for something outside of me that will come and change me doesn't work. There must be...

I don't care either, but if you're gonna do something really weird let me know- I might want to watch.

I studied the Western Tradition and Kabbalah for twenty five or so years. One day (well, not literally one day) I couldn't think of anywhere else to go with it. "I guess I'm done" I thought. A weird mix of emotions went with that thought. At the end of my studies I came to realize that I...

Moo Mouth........

I like this. I see religion as a way to share modelling across the line between physical and meta-physical to allow a usable interpenetration of both both realms. Chris

Thanks, concurbine! Chris