AB,
My faith is entirely rational because it is totally compatible with the reality of my existence and my freedom to choose my own thoughts, words and actions.
That’s a lot of wrongness to put into one sentence. If your faith was “entirely rational” there’d be no need for faith – you could just present the argument rationally and no-one could argue with it. You can’t do that though, so you need the magic dust of “faith” to get you from guessing to certainty.
As for your reality, yes we know that that’s
your reality. Indeed at a superficial level that’s the reality for most people. The problem though is that explaining that reality requires something more than superficial thinking, and when some of us do that we can see that your ontology unravels like a cheap suit.
What is irrational is your conclusion that all your thoughts are predetermined before you are consciously aware of them.
Except it isn’t irrational at all if you actually think about it more deeply than the shallowness you espouse here and so realise that your alternative is logically impossible.
Perhaps this conclusion is inevitable if you refuse to accept the reality and power of your spiritual nature.
But we know don’t we that “spiritual” is just the word you use when you actually mean “it’s magic innit” but you’re too embarrassed to say so. You must have this piece of unqualified dishonesty though to get you off the hook of determined vs random.
But it is a conclusion which renders any arguments you make to be predetermined without your conscious input.
Argumentum ad consequentiam (yet again), and that does not change a thing about the workaday reality
of our experience even though relying on it for deeper explanations
for the experience collapses immediately you bother to think about it. You remember don’t you the question I asked you over and over again about how you’d make a logical connection between the experience of something and the explanation for it, only for you to run away from it over and over again?
You do remember that right?
Any argument you personally put forward requires the freedom to consciously drive your own thoughts. You are not a machine.
Wrong as wrong can be for reasons you seem entirely unable or unwilling even to think about.
