Remarkl
1 min readJan 15, 2024

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In a moral world, it is in transformations of the heart, the living or a moral and spiritual life, one which makes you a vessel for the Goodness that is all goodness: the love that in Dante’s vision moves the sun and other stars.

I call such wishful prose the "wantological" proof of God's existence. It is so wonderful to believe that the belief must be true. But there may be no there there. Morals may just be game theory made accessible. If the law didn't keep crime at bay, it would not exist. That we have found a way to get self-esteem by obeying the law is a credit to our species' creativity.

Attacks on atheism assume that it can be debunked. But it can't. Some atheistic arguments can be debunked, but the burden of proof is not on the atheist; it is on the proponent of a supernatural entity. There is no "pick-six" in theology. You can't score points on defense.

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Remarkl
Remarkl

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