Damn, that’s a real convincing argument you got there.
Any cursory understanding of world religions and theology will tell you that this “Sky Daddy” view of divinity is incredibly rare. Not only because not all religions are monotheistic, but even among monotheists, conceptions of God are incredibly varied and diverse.
I think what irks me about this kind of ‘New Atheism’ common in Western internet spaces (which frankly, I thought was a decade+ out of vogue by now) is that it isn’t simply a lack of God belief, but a specific disbelief in the God of American Evangelical Protestantism that somehow manages to retain so much of the philosophical underpinnings of the thing supposedly being rejected.
When Sam Harris famously said, “Islam is the motherload of bad ideas” he’s rooting that position in, not only War-on-terror Imperial chauvanism and racism, but also on the very Protestant idea that right beliefs are what bring about salvation.
Of course, the secular version of this idea eschews God. But it replaces faith with belief in so-called Western Values, and Salvation with ‘backward’ nations of the global south being enfolded into the sphere of western liberal hegemony.
Any cursory understanding of world religions and theology will tell you that this “Sky Daddy” view of divinity is incredibly rare. Not only because not all religions are monotheistic, but even among monotheists, conceptions of God are incredibly varied and diverse.
When an adivasi Hindu gets small pox and she believes that the affliction is her communing with the goddess Sītala, is that the same thing as “Sky Daddy” theology?
When a Wiccan performs a ritual to the Horned God who is a god of hunting, the underworld, (and is himself a mediator between an unknowable supreme deity and the people) so they might have a successful fishing trip. Is that “Sky Daddy” theology?
When a Muslim theologian says that, “God is completely different from whatever comes to your mind concerning Him” and that the nature of God is incomprehensible to human minds. Is that “Sky Daddy” theology?
I looked it up like you told me to. And none of this sounds very “Sky Daddy” to me
You clearly aren’t a very curious person, but I am, and I’m having fun. All of those are “Sky Daddy” theologies? How so? Define “Sky Daddy” theology. What’s a possible argument one could make for these theological positions not being “Sky Daddy”?
Remember to answer every part of the essay question, or you won’t get full points!
I’m willing to bet they only know Christianity and think all religions are like Christianity, just with a different looking skydaddy.
To be fair that’s most religion.
Its not, but thanks for playing
Yes it is, look it up
Damn, that’s a real convincing argument you got there.
Any cursory understanding of world religions and theology will tell you that this “Sky Daddy” view of divinity is incredibly rare. Not only because not all religions are monotheistic, but even among monotheists, conceptions of God are incredibly varied and diverse.
I think what irks me about this kind of ‘New Atheism’ common in Western internet spaces (which frankly, I thought was a decade+ out of vogue by now) is that it isn’t simply a lack of God belief, but a specific disbelief in the God of American Evangelical Protestantism that somehow manages to retain so much of the philosophical underpinnings of the thing supposedly being rejected.
When Sam Harris famously said, “Islam is the motherload of bad ideas” he’s rooting that position in, not only War-on-terror Imperial chauvanism and racism, but also on the very Protestant idea that right beliefs are what bring about salvation.
Of course, the secular version of this idea eschews God. But it replaces faith with belief in so-called Western Values, and Salvation with ‘backward’ nations of the global south being enfolded into the sphere of western liberal hegemony.
lol nope that’s a sky daddy
So, when a Shinto practitioner worships the animist spirit which he believes resides within Mt. Fuji, so that the crops he’s growing at its base might yield a fruitful harvest, that’s the same thing as “Sky Daddy” theology?
When an adivasi Hindu gets small pox and she believes that the affliction is her communing with the goddess Sītala, is that the same thing as “Sky Daddy” theology?
When a Wiccan performs a ritual to the Horned God who is a god of hunting, the underworld, (and is himself a mediator between an unknowable supreme deity and the people) so they might have a successful fishing trip. Is that “Sky Daddy” theology?
When a Muslim theologian says that, “God is completely different from whatever comes to your mind concerning Him” and that the nature of God is incomprehensible to human minds. Is that “Sky Daddy” theology?
I looked it up like you told me to. And none of this sounds very “Sky Daddy” to me
Yes
You wanna elaborate on that, bucko?
You clearly aren’t a very curious person, but I am, and I’m having fun. All of those are “Sky Daddy” theologies? How so? Define “Sky Daddy” theology. What’s a possible argument one could make for these theological positions not being “Sky Daddy”?
Remember to answer every part of the essay question, or you won’t get full points!