Another Question For Christians

[Carl_William]

"David, I love your books, but this is the psychology forum. Everything useful here is going to get drowned out again by a whole new wave of God posts."

”God, rushes, it’s all the same thing. “

I agree that the compliments that most all poker players send your way because of your poker writings and poker lectures are very deserving. But….

David you have demonstrated that you are a duck out of water or still in the first grade when you use metaphors or maybe allegories to demonstrate your feelings concerning God, gods, and religions. The sentence:

”God, rushes, it’s all the same thing. “

Demonstrates your ignorance when discussing God. I guess your hope is that if you died and went to poker heaven – that you would experience an eternal, perpetual rush not unlike winning every poker hand….

[purnell]

Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here, but "God, rushes, it's all the same thing" made me laugh so hard
I cried. If I may presume, I think David was equating God with superstition, which in my humble opinion is no stretch at all.

[sandsmarc]

I really think the idea that there is a God is so self-evidently silly.

And offering any part of the Bible as proof is self-negating. Claiming that the Bible is "inspired by God" is as arbitrary and intellectually indefensible as simply postulating God's existence in the first place. What's the difference. "Inspired by God" presupposes his existence.

God is a temporary crutch concept. We created God as a way of filling in the blanks for everything we don't yet know.
It was, and is, a terrible idea.

If we don't self-destruct first as one mass of god proponents seeks to annihlate another, we will evolve to the point where we realize the dopeyness of this terrible construct.

[Piemaster]

This is a classic example of a trying to argue a point using points of reference the other person does not recognise.

There is no point that saying DS does not know a lot about God because he doesn't belive in God, therefore from his point of view he knows everything there is to know about God. In fact in his mind (and in the mind of other atheists) he knows a lot more about God than you do and so is just as within his rights to say that God is like rushes as you are to say he isn't.