Reply to Re: Are there any Objectivists out here?
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September 29th 2005, 03:15 AM
Lurkala
I think he meant to say yes rather than no, but for this reason: Objectivism views Christianity as wrong not for the reason you suggest, but because Christianity states that God is "outside" reality... and to an Objectivist that means that God isn't real. Once God is proved to not be real, it would be silly to worship him or think that he has any effect on the world.
My opinion is that Christians *meant* to say that God is outside matter (the physical) but that he exists as the absolute Truth, instead of saying he is outside of reality. Of course, that is my opinion and I am not claiming that it is absolute Truth, much less of a religion where I am not exactly a member.
(Since the Bible has been translated so many times and was written in a completely different cultural viewpoint and way of speaking than us, it is rather difficult to discern what was really meant even by sentences in the Bible that seem to us to be obvious in the translated versions.)
Hmm. Sleeeeeeep.
My opinion is that Christians *meant* to say that God is outside matter (the physical) but that he exists as the absolute Truth, instead of saying he is outside of reality. Of course, that is my opinion and I am not claiming that it is absolute Truth, much less of a religion where I am not exactly a member.
(Since the Bible has been translated so many times and was written in a completely different cultural viewpoint and way of speaking than us, it is rather difficult to discern what was really meant even by sentences in the Bible that seem to us to be obvious in the translated versions.)
Hmm. Sleeeeeeep.
