Live and Let Live

[madamesilverspurs]

[jwirr]

1. I love that religion is personal.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. Your religion is a set of statements about the world, that are either true or false.

A religion is not a "map for a journey", it's a set of factual statements like "God exists"; "such and such a miracle occurred", "this is what happens after death", which can be either true or false, but not both, and sometimes but not always a set of ethical positions - "we should act in such and such a way", which can be good or bad ethics.

Either there is a God, or there is not - there can't be on for you but not for me, or vice versa.

So I think that the sentiment this expresses is essentially mistaken.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. You might be right. Or not.

The point being that you don't have the right to force me to live according to your opinion.

Or vice versa.

[hunter]

4. That poster doesn't say anything about God or any of the other things you bring up.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. Almost certainly, she either believes in a God or gods, or other similar concepts, or she doesn't.

Either way, my point stands.

[CBGLuthier]

6. There are nontheistic religions, so your absolutism is flawed.

Otherwise I would say you are letting logic get in the way of the point but that's OK. I agree with the sentiment of the poster and am not bothered one bit by any ambiguities.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. Nontheism is just as much a statement about whether or not there is a god as theism is. N.T.