Professor Charles Taylor ~ Rational belief in God

Professor Charles Taylor talks with CommonHome.Tv in this 6 part series. Charles Taylor CC GOQ FBA FRSC is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, history of philosophy and intellectual history. This work has earned him the prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, and the John W. Kluge Prize, in addition to widespread esteem among philosophers.
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[@zeroonetime]

All actions/movements/moments are the Life force of Creation

[@bongomcgurk7363]

Taylor confuses rational and rationalization as is frequently the case with those committing the logical fallacy of confirmation bias. Start out with the conclusion and then justify the conclusion by concocting excuses that masquerade as rational.

[@nickpharo5300]

Charles Taylor is now facing jailtime for rationally soliciting a minor.

[@neoclassicism1]

No he isn’t

[@JohnDuck88]

lmao

[@windows95ism]

clean your room bruh

[@MacmillansDiciple]

windows95ism Books all over the place are good. Not like he has dirty laundry all over the place.

[@darthdj31]

Trust me this is every philosophy professor's office

[@roccococolombo2044]

Makes no more sense than rational belief in ghosts.

[@JHarder1000]

Thank you for reminding us why the village atheist and the village idiot are one and the same.

[@shawnmalloy2919]

My experience with theists can be adequately described this way. They are people who see a baseball parked in a grass field. They then walk up to the ball, draw a bullseye around it, and proclaim that "god hit the target!" Rational belief is very different from rational evidence.

[@roccococolombo2044]

@@JHarder1000 Insults, but no arguments.

[@JP-jh7hq]

@@shawnmalloy2919 elaborate

[@shawnmalloy2919]

@@JP-jh7hq I will try. What I meant was that theists - from my perspective - begin their defense of the god argument by insisting, without evidence, that god exists and then cherry pick the bits that they think proves the existence of the god narrative, AND more importantly, disregard anything that doesn't comport with that narrative. So, for example, one theistic argument is that god "designed" the universe (this is where they walk up to the baseball and draw a circle around it) for us (this the part where theists insist that "god hit the target".) This is fallacious because basic observation and science tells us that we were "designed" to function from/with the planet Earth, and not the reverse - that the Earth was "designed" for us! That's just one example; but this is the approach that all faiths cling to. They start with the unverifiable, unobservable, presupposition that god exists, and disregard anything that doesn't fit inside that model. This dishonest and fallacious approach is the death of most Theistic arguments. If that's not clear, please allow me to make another run at explaining myself; and thanks for asking.