Apr 8, 2012 -- 8:21PM, farragut wrote:

Expect no response. This has every appearance of another irresponsible anonymous drive-by.

He has to answer. He's only a level 2 member. The rest of us outrank him.

Apr 8, 2012 -- 7:51PM, Blü wrote:

RoeDoe

You asked this before.  Why raise it again?

You expect him to remember getting spanked previously?

I love my dog - an 16 year old Aussie named Maggie.

I am an atheist.

Ergo, those who say love is impossible without belief in the supernatural are F.O.S.

Case closed.

I'm curious to know why certain theists are so eager to attribute love to a supernatural source, but not other emotions such as hatred, disgust, indifference, boredom, anger, sorrow, annoyance and so forth. I raised this issue the last time Roedoe started a thread, but it was never addressed. It seems to me that unless all feelings require a supernatural origin, none of them do.

Apr 9, 2012 -- 5:39PM, mainecaptain wrote:

Apr 9, 2012 -- 5:37PM, Ken wrote:

I'm curious to know why certain theists are so eager to attribute love to a supernatural source, but not other emotions such as hatred, disgust, indifference, boredom, anger, sorrow and so forth. I raised this issue the last time Roedoe started a thread, but it was never addressed. It seems to me that unless all feelings require a supernatural origin, none of them do.

I was thinking about this yesterday. You are right. If the super natural is responsible for love, it would be responsible for hate anger all the rest you mentioned.

Well, yes, if we assume an ultimate agency behind all of experienced reality then we have opened up a can of worms all of which we will never be able to put back into the can.  Plus more crawl out all of the time.

Thus god - the ultimate inexplicable and unknowable agency - seems the least likely explanation for anything and everything.  Yet many people continue to seem rather attached to the idea.  Go figure.