Posted by Bob 2 on September 01, 1998 at 23:50:58:
In Reply to: Think again... posted by GaDS on September 01, 1998 at 15:32:31:
Look at what you are saying "Define", "straightforward", these are all terms obsessed with absolutes. "Abstract thinking" is just that, abstract, not absolute.
These terms are merely futile efforts to make an absolute out of which there is no absolute. It’s driven by an obsessive inability to leave any lose ends open. ….Can’t figure it out, therefore "god" did it. "Abstract thinking" is saying, "maybe, maybe not".
In the case of religious rationalizations. Religious apologists are often people who can think in the abstract, but aren’t interested one way or the other except as a means to an end, like a lawyer does. In most cases it’s a matter of keeping their jobs.
As far as faith goes, that’s simply a form of denial.
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