From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:23:31 EDT
Subject: Re: God and Philosophy




I can understand this kind of fullness, richness, and thrill, but my 
question has to do with using this as a phenomenological explication of 
God-ness, because an atheist (and I don't just mean this in the sense of a 
dry intellectual denial of God's existence) can also experience the 
fullness, richness, and thrills of great art, music, philosophy, ice cream, 
and Homeric bards. So this seems to me to be insufficient for a 
phenomenology of God.

Anthony Crifasi

Jud:
You're bang on target there Anthony.  Religious types often descend to 
patronising language concerning atheists' feelings,  and like to represent 
themselves as 
being spiritually and emotionally superior to nonbelievers.  They infer that 
atheists are emotionally exsanguinous, and lack some kind of  heavenly key to 
open feelings of  'I'>cosmos ecstasy. This gets RIGHT up atheists' noses!
It is very refreshing to observe your adult Catholic pragmatism.

Cheers,

Jud.

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