{"id":12212,"date":"2020-05-15T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12212"},"modified":"2020-05-16T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T08:41:43","slug":"quote-for-the-day-234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12212","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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God is incomprehensible \u2014 yet theology is sure his \u201cinfinite love\u201d spawned nature\u2019s slaughterhouse of foxes ripping rabbits apart, sharks gashing seals, pythons suffocating pigs and the rest of the \u201cgrand drama of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

What evidence supports this peculiar conclusion? None \u2014 just trust theology.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019ve decided that there is no such thing as sophisticated theology<\/span>. At bottom, the issue is simple: Either supernatural spirits exist, or they don\u2019t. Either heavens, hells, gods, devils, saviors, miracles and the rest are real, or they\u2019re concoctions of the human imagination.<\/p>\n

James A. Haught<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Correct. Theology has no intellectual dignity, it is not a branch of knowledge, and it deserves no respect. And the reason is simple: Theology does not do the hard work of establishing its premises. First, you have to prove the existence of a supernatural being. Then, you have to prove it’s the supernatural being Abraham was so proud of. After that, you have to prove that supernatural being somehow superintended the production of the Bible, in order to communicate with us.<\/p>\n

Theologians know they can’t do that, and dodge the problems by grandly calling themselves ‘presuppositionalists,’ which means they presuppose the truth of all those claims.<\/p>\n

Sorry, but … No. An engineer might cover tens of pages with calculations when analyzing a problem — and every single line has a documented pedigree. That’s the reason theologians have nothing to show for themselves but millennia of savagery, and engineering has put a man on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God is incomprehensible \u2014 yet theology is sure his \u201cinfinite love\u201d spawned nature\u2019s slaughterhouse of foxes ripping rabbits apart, sharks gashing seals, pythons suffocating pigs and the rest of the \u201cgrand drama of life.\u201d What evidence supports this peculiar conclusion? … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12218,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions\/12218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}