Friday, January 11, 2013

Necessity, not superstition, rules


     Those  superstitious  people would think that religious experience can  provide them glimpses of the supernatural prefer their superstition that  the necessity  of natural causes. Yes, some might claim that the supernatural works through  the natural, but that is a useless redundancy.
     The Aquinas- Shelley argument is as Percy  Bysshe Shelley so wisely maintains:" To suppose that some  existence beyond, or above them [ the descriptions-laws - of Naature,M.L.] is to invent a second and superfluous hypothesis to account for what already is accounted for.To  aver that that is a  metaphysical  category mistake begs the question thereof.
       Leucippus would concur then that all religious experience is people's own minds at work. To aver supernatural  input begs the question.
      People cam as  Sacks  maintains self-induce those experiences. Our body chemistry accounts for those experiences.
      Why then would one ever want to be superstitious?   

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