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RE: Atheist Professor vs. Student - A (not so) Brilliant Conversation
That "conversation" you linked is hilarious.
That student was ALBERT EINSTEIN.
Ok. Case closed. He MUST be right now.
Anyway, some good points in this write-up.
Although I feel like a religious truth and a scientific truth aren't the same thing. "Proof" isn't really a religious concept and thus asking a religious person to "proof his faith" means applying an irrelevant concept to his religious truths.
(Btw, keep up these longer writings. I'll give you a resteem again.)
I don't agree. We can't have different meanings of the same concept "truth" depending on the context. Truth is, will and should be universal.
Yeah it's like Nietzsche said, religion dag its own grave when it started talking about objective truth. That was the beginning of the end. Basically everything the Catholic Church did (they approached the issue of the existence of God very rationally). There's some wisdom (or sneakiness?) in the (opposite) approach of the Eastern Orthodox Church, that preferred to make their theology apophatic ("we can't talk about God").
Oh I like that idea of a apophatic theology. Never heard of it. I feel like that is indeed the proper way of a religion to act.
On the other hand, the objective approach of the Catholic Church in some way opened up the door for the Enlightment to creep in.
And a quick fistbump for a fellow Nietzsche-n!
:P