[ExI] Atheism again (was: How many current members of ExI?)

[William Flynn Wallace]

>
> I believe that God is a rational deduction which only requires materialism
> and the experience of one's own consciousness.
>

Which isn't what 99.999% of the population means when they say "God".
You're welcome to define it however you want, but that's going to cause a
lot of confusion.

-Dave

Maybe Will ought to start his own religion.  Then he will be forced to
explain it to people in ways they can understand.  Not likely.  bill w

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:06 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I believe that God is a rational deduction which only requires
>> materialism and the experience of one's own consciousness.
>>
>
> Which isn't what 99.999% of the population means when they say "God".
> You're welcome to define it however you want, but that's going to cause a
> lot of confusion.
>
> -Dave
>
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