Why do people believe in God and not flying pink unicorns?
Peter Kreeft says: “The vast majority of all human beings at all times, places, and cultures have always believed in some kind of God. Therefore, belief in God is likely to be true. Or to put it differently, in order to be an atheist you must be a snob! You must believe you stand among the very small minority who are liberated from mankind’s most pervasive superstition. This doesn’t prove anything but should make the atheist worry a little bit.” Maybe belief in God is properly basic (we know God exists intuitionally) and that a failure to believe in God must be the result of Paul’s musings in Roman 1. The mockery from new school atheists that belief in God is equivalent to the belief in flying pink unicorns is muddleheaded given best explanation hypotheses and seems disingenuous since not many folks believe in flying pink unicorns. Peace
Here’s a good site to peruse –> http://www.bethinking.org
September 16, 2007 at 4:59 pm
It took me a couple of times to figure out the title of this entry. I thought you were saying people who believe in God should also believe in pink unicorns. Then it hit me that you mean that they believe in God INSTEAD OF pink unicorns…
I’m dumb.
–DB
September 21, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I find myself believing in pink unicorns but not God. Why is that?
Sincerely,
C-mac
September 21, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Who knows. Maybe you’ve discovered something that I’d love to hear about. =)
September 23, 2007 at 5:37 am
C-Mac is the typical Liquid Relevent Authentic Emergent Church Spong-loving Hippie Calvinist Liberal–probably from the southern US school of philosophy. His type can’t be trusted.