You've made some excellent points here, Inger.
Uneducated, none-too-bright people -- who are also atheists or
agnostics -- are inclined to believe if they cannot DEFINE something, it
can't possibly EXIST.
So they play Johnny One Note on that theme.
This is part and parcel of their severely reductionist approach to life
and epistemology, which they see as solely materialist and empiricist.
Those beliefs are also, of course, at the core of Dialectical
Materialism. -- Therefore, the vast majority of these none-too-bright
atheists, and most of the agnostics as well, are Marxists or
Crypto-Marxists, whether they realize it or not.
That's one of Pogue J. Gans's principal problems, whirling around in his
VERY confused noodle. He is a particularly interesting variant of the
Marxist species -- a Radical-Chic, Greenwich-Village Marxist.
Said amusing, none-too-bright atheists and agnostics -- THINK they know
Philosophy -- but they don't.
They invariably turn out to have read far too MUCH reworked and
dumbed-down Plato, Marx, Engels, Sartre, Camus, Lenin and Mao -- and far
too LITTLE Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel, C. S. Lewis,
Ralph Harper and Thomas Merton.
So the gaps in their understanding and sensitivities are so HUGE and
yawning [in more ways than one] -- that an intelligent person really
can't carry on a meaningful, serious conversation with them.
It would be as useless as trying to talk about Kierkegaard with a
cockroach.
Just use them for ENTERTAINMENT -- NEVER for a SERIOUS CONVERSATION,
Inger.
Cheers,
I hope your weather is not too bad -- we have a cloudy spell here in
Kailua -- and chilly for us, getting down into the low 60's at night.
Spencer
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of
in your philosophy." -- William Shakespeare [1564-1616] The Tragedy of
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Fortem Posce Animum.
"The final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth....
This is sought for its own sake, and is directed to no other end beyond
itself." Saint Thomas Aquinas, [1224/5-1274] "Summa Contra Gentiles"
[c.1258-1264]
"Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo."
Quintus Aurelius Stultus [33 B.C. - 42 A.D.]
Prosecutio stultitiae est gravis vexatio, executio stultitiae coronat
opus.
'Nuff Said.
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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