ambush80
Senior Member
Someone said this on the Sam Harris forum. I thought it was good:
"I don’t think anyone can know “God” on a shared level, because “God” is just a sound that human beings make with their mouths in reference to an undefined concept about the nature of reality and it’s inception, it has no actual definable characteristics, it’s just a conceptualized idea rooted in our fear of the unknown and need to propagate our own grandiose importance in the universe. Individuals can “know God” because the idea itself only exists within their minds and not in any kind of representational reality. When it comes to God/Religion I’m comfortable saying I can’t answer the questions that no one has been able to answer since the beginning of mankind and I will not make claims about these unanswerable questions no matter the comfort it might bring me. That would be to refute objective truth on the basis of an emotional reaction and the comfort of ignorance is a poor man’s intellectual solace."
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread/69508/P15/
"I don’t think anyone can know “God” on a shared level, because “God” is just a sound that human beings make with their mouths in reference to an undefined concept about the nature of reality and it’s inception, it has no actual definable characteristics, it’s just a conceptualized idea rooted in our fear of the unknown and need to propagate our own grandiose importance in the universe. Individuals can “know God” because the idea itself only exists within their minds and not in any kind of representational reality. When it comes to God/Religion I’m comfortable saying I can’t answer the questions that no one has been able to answer since the beginning of mankind and I will not make claims about these unanswerable questions no matter the comfort it might bring me. That would be to refute objective truth on the basis of an emotional reaction and the comfort of ignorance is a poor man’s intellectual solace."
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread/69508/P15/
