Computational Religious Analysis

[sealchan]

Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?

As Gaiman has explained the Gods require our attention so those that can survive are the fittest.

 

[sealchan]

Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?

Given that gods are reflective of inner psychological truths, I think that monotheism is born of the psychological pressure that comes from a people struggling to be moral individually and as a group under sometimes extreme concern about being destroyed. In our own dreams, when we confront our deepest fears we can have our own experiences like that of Abraham. In fact, I think that authors of Genesis had an awareness and appreciation for dreams and that their experience of God was likely grounded in their experience of Him through their collective dreaming life.

 

[Darkforbid]

You know nothing about atheism, astronomy or cosmology so why pretend?

Atheism :: disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.

Nothing more, nothing less?

You are confusing atheism with science, a common mistake of the deliberately ignorant

And apparently you don't know the difference between atheistic and atheism.

 

[ChristineM]

And apparently you don't know the difference between atheistic and atheism.

You reckon?

Atheistic : disbelieving or lacking belief in the existence of God.
Atheism : disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.

Your move, all you need to do is misrepresent the Oxford English dictionary.

 

[Darkforbid]

You reckon?

Atheistic : disbelieving or lacking belief in the existence of God.
Atheism : disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.

Your move, all you need to do is misrepresent the Oxford English dictionary.

I don't, an atheist is a person with disbelief in God, only atheists seem to think it applies only to their disbelief and not the person with disbelief

 

[ChristineM]

I don't, an atheist is a person with disbelief in God, only atheists seem to think it applies only to their disbelief and not the person with disbelief

Seems you are the one tagging beliefs on to atheism and in the process attempting to denegate what you fail to understand.

See your own post #39.

 

[viole]

Between 0, 1 and many you have covered the gamut.

But if you want to play with numbers, what about fractional deities and transcendental ones (Aleph sub nought). Or complex ones made up of "real" and "imaginary" numbers The mind could boggle itself easily here.

Well, Jesus is 1/3 of God, isn’t He?

Ciao

- viole

 

[firedragon]

Have you ever thought of the Pantheistic concept of God?

Okay. Forget pantheism. What if this universe has a mind. Its conscious, not dead. its alive. And that is God. Maybe thats why no ones prayers are answered.

 

[Jake1001]

This fits quite nicely with my role of Computer Simulator.

Revolting seeing you again !

Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?

 

[Heyo]

Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?

If there were some gods and you insist on comparing them to birds, you'd better compare them to the supreme birds, ravens. Thus a multitude of gods would be a murder, not a gaggle.

 

[Heyo]

Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)

Zero isn't fundamentally different from other numbers. It would fit an atheist to answer zero, but I, as an Agnostic, would go further and insist that {} (the empty set) is more adequate. Answering 0 insinuates that you know what you are talking about (and thus the theists do also). But you don't and they don't.

 

[Revoltingest]

Zero isn't fundamentally different from other numbers. It would fit an atheist to answer zero, but I, as an Agnostic, would go further and insist that {} (the empty set) is more adequate. Answering 0 insinuates that you know what you are talking about (and thus the theists do also). But you don't and they don't.

Oh, I do know what I'm talking about.
It's just that my opinion is entirely unreliable.
But I take solace in being nicht einmal falsch.