A Sense of Free Will: the consciousness quagmire (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, November 20, 2015, 01:25 (3292 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Your insistence that humans were your God's purpose,... is already a reading of God's mind. Unless you reject my “version” of your faith as outlined above, it is your theology. Your rejection of established religions is also part of your theology.-I think rejection of established religions is philosophy, but with the rest you are correct and I have my personal limited theology.-
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> dhw: You are of course free to follow or reject different concepts of God and his work as you please, but let's not pretend that your religious beliefs are “completely” separate from your philosophical discussions.
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> DAVID: Of course I have a simple and positive religious belief, which is the religion I profess: there is a greater power that invented and runs all of this. There can be no other explanation. That is my theology. Beyond that the rest is guesswork. And I arrived at this point philosophically. I still think you are confused by your knowledge of and rejection of religion.
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> dhw: Your philosophical discussions (including a very precise interpretation of theistic evolution) are based on your theology, which you arrived at through your philosophy! So how can you claim that you stay away from religious theology in philosophical discussion? And indeed why should you? It seems to me to be perfectly normal that your theology should permeate your philosophy. And perfectly normal that I should question both, just as you question the theological speculations that permeate my philosophy.-I can accept that statement, and note that your philosophy has lead you to an atheologic state of thought. (Not 'anti', but 'a'.)