This is exactly why I like to entertain religious thoughts. My background, training, and inclination are to be a thoroughgoing atheist materialist, so I find that trying to make sense of religious ideas is good mental exercise. Feel the burn!
Also, the more seriously religious had roughly the same idea, or maybe it’s the opposite idea. The counterfactuality of religious ideas is part of their strength, apparently.
“Try to think the thought that hurts the most.”
This is exactly why I like to entertain religious thoughts. My background, training, and inclination are to be a thoroughgoing atheist materialist, so I find that trying to make sense of religious ideas is good mental exercise. Feel the burn!
In that vein, here is an audio recording of Robert Aumann on speaking on “The Personality of God”.
Also, the more seriously religious had roughly the same idea, or maybe it’s the opposite idea. The counterfactuality of religious ideas is part of their strength, apparently.