“Atheism is spiritual masturbation.”
Never noticed any ectoplasm on the sheets…
“The function of sex is to experience it with a partner in order to bring life into the world.”
No, I’ve had a lot of sex that was functionally NOT reproductive, although orgasms did occur. So, that’s wrong. Maybe you mean ‘intent?’ The intent of sex is reproduction?
But then, we couldn’t have sex except for a couple days each month when she was fertile. that’d be easy enough, if an egg wasn’t in the uterus, the vagina would not allow penetration. Or men couldn’t find infertile women attractive. Something.
So, no, that’s not the function or the intent.
“On a spiritual (i.e., psychic) level, the same principle holds true;”
But your principle doesn’t hold true.
“that is, God is the partner.”
Doesn’t that disprove all those claims that ‘Marriage is One man and One woman.’ It’s ALSO One God.
“So I ask, do atheists have anything but themselves in their introspection?”
Isn’t all introspection one’s self by definition? How the hell would anyone else get in there without redefining the act?
“Eveything from our standpoint begins in the imagination, which does not necessarily imply unreality.”
No, I get more than a few hard-ons from my eyes, or my ears, or my nose. Stimulus goes from sensors to my spine, and out the dick.
“Therefore, I would agree that God is imaginary.”
Meh. You’re playing word games.
“Addendum: God is imaginary in the sense that concepts do become real in the "physical" universe.”
That’s not a definition of imaginary.
“From the imagination, articulated concepts affect this world, e.g. simply designing a car, writing a good story, or designing the atomic bomb.”
No. i can design an atom bomb without creating an articulated concept of a bomb.
Also, I’ve seen plenty of drunks throwing up pointillistic patterns of vomit that don’t require imagination to create.
