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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiger" data-source="post: 136681" data-attributes="member: 353">Firstly, to say I have an ‘assertion’ rather than a ‘belief’ is erroneous. Belief in God—especially from a classical theist position—is not mere assertion but a reasoned conviction grounded in metaphysics, natural law, and divine revelation. Unlike belief in aliens, which is speculative and reliant on technological myths and government secrecy, the belief in God engages the rational faculties and the moral conscience. It is not asserted, it is discerned.Secondly, to call it ‘Gnosticism’ is either a mistake or a misuse of the term. Gnosticism is the belief in secret esoteric knowledge as the path to salvation, often in defiance of the material world as evil. Christianity—especially Traditional Catholicism—repudiates that heresy. We believe in a God who reveals Himself publicly in history: through the Law, the Prophets, the Incarnation, the Cross, and the Church. There is nothing secretive or arcane about that—it is the antidote to Gnosticism.Thirdly, when I mentioned the ‘cosmic wager,’ I was making a reference to Pascal—not to reduce faith to a mere gamble, but to show that reason alone demands we confront the ultimate questions. A man who considers only the material and dismisses the transcendent out of hand has closed himself off from half of reality. My conclusion is not reached by blind assent, but by years of wrestling with first principles: Why is there something rather than nothing? What sustains existence? What accounts for moral law, reason, beauty, and personhood?If you think the answer is 'aliens' or blind chance—then, respectfully, I submit you’re not engaging in philosophy, but in distraction.</blockquote>

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