Quote:
Originally Posted by Knalus
You're moving the goalposts. First it went from someone, to their specific claims. And yes, Gandhi made claims.
MLK Jr did make many mentions to God and his beliefs. Even in that speech.
But if you can't see that, here's another one.
|
I don't mean to the move the goalposts. I've always been asking how one distinguishes, in some rational and principled way, between one supernatural claim (such as "God is speaking to me", or "I am the son of God", or "so and so was immaculately conceived" or "I am the reincarnation of such and such") from other supernatural claims ("I am the son of bigfoot" or "so and so is an alien"). Perhaps I haven't been expressing myself clearly.
Now, if you want to distinguish these sorts of claims in a non-rational way, such as "it makes me feel better about the world to believe in the Jesus' claims about heaven and the afterlife", that's fair enough. Just don't claim to be making a rational and principled distinction.