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God is an extension of ourselves but he is the ideal that is perfected and absolutized. As such this metaphysical concept grounds our subjective nature and gives it an objective 'reality' that extends beyond the self. This justifies our judgments regarding our own and others actions and explains certain unexplainable events in human existence. In fact the dialetic history of 'God' follows this narrowing pattern until 2,000 years after Christ Christian apologetics has been reduced to mere syllogisms proving God's existence with a-priori metaphysical abstractions that are epistemologically problematic.
But can you name a worldview that is not epistemologically problematic?
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Originally Posted by Bunjee
But can you name a worldview that is not epistemologically problematic?
Materialism in general is far less problematic than metaphysical ones.
The methodologies for showing either one are different in degree. It is far more convincing to show the reality of a physical object or phenomenon than some metaphysical concept like 'God.'
Freud regards God as an illusion, based on the infantile need for a powerful father figure; religion, necessary to help us restrain violent impulses earlier in the development of civilization, can now be set aside in favor of reason and science.[1] Freud and religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is a projection for the ultimate father figure.
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