CoC doctrine on authority is highly inconsistent

[chrisso99]

I agree Agricola, once any definition is given to God, absurdity immediately follows. The more definite and absolute the definition of God becomes (ala the CoC and other fundy religions) , the more absurd and utterly ridiculous the conclusions become. That absurdity gets written off by "the lord works in mysterious ways," and other clichés that make total sense- unless you think about them. That's how we can be confident God doesn't exist - or if it does exist - it doesn't matter, because it is inherently incomprehensible and inconsequential to our lives. Every bit of human knowledge of any utility has been learned through our physical senses and understood through use of logic. Even our emotions have physical and measureable characteristics; even though our current understanding of the brain still has a long way to go we can literally see love, happiness, and sadness, happen. Nothing in our life is outside the natural realm, yet for some reason, some people still insist on magical super-natural thinking and once you abandon reason for magic, the results are going to be highly inconsistent, hence the million+ religious sects that exist in the world today, many of which want to slaughter or conquer all the others.

[agricola]

I might say 'incomprehensible in the entirety', but I would surely not say 'inconsequential to our lives'. Not least because the world is full of God-believers, and unless a person wants to live in a cave and grow their own mushrooms while wearing batskins, we all must deal with other people.

Besides, something ultimately incomprehensible in the entirety' may or may not be totally incomprehensible in every possible way - and we all live inside our heads, so other people are - ultimately - incomprehensible to us, to at least some degree. Yet we still manage to communicate (mostly).