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In reply to the discussion: I have nothing against people who don't believe in spirituality, but people who proselytize non- [View all]zipplewrath
(16,698 posts)You're right, that there are gods that can be "falsified". The whole "earth on the back of turtles" thing is another example.
It is actually one of the problems that many faiths deal with regularly, the falsification of various aspects of their deities. The Roman Catholic Church did battle with science for decades as various explanations of acts of god were shown to actually just be "acts" of nature. We still deal today with the crowd that insists that the earth is only 6000 years old. Many faithful have "learned" to stop trying to connect specific events or phenomenon to a deity because it actually makes their deity, or at least the "evidence" of existence, falsifiable. Even worse for the faithful was when "acts of god" could be "recreated" by knowledgeable men. It created the conflict of "does doing this make one a god?".
Almost in reaction to this reality, many concepts of deities have incorporated the concept of pure faith into them. i.e. it is the intent of the deity that they cannot be proven to exist such that faith alone must dictate the basis of belief. It's part of the concept behind the "doubting Thomas" story.
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