Theism versus Realism

 (Reply to Facebook post by Richard Schloss)    
     
     Richard, if you analyze that conflict more deeply -- that is, from an epistemological perspective -- you see that the difference between theists and their opposites, who I call 'realists' and not 'atheists', is in the primary (or metaphysical) reasoning with which we all begin our considerations of events. The error that theists make is that instead of acknowledging the initial view of the whole Reality that they and all other humans have, they deny that insight and wait until they reach their tertiary reasoning, where they can fabricate a pseudo-reality from their partialistic passions, one that makes them feel better than the truth about Reality does.

     I have explained this, clearly I believe, in my book HUMAN NATURE: A NEW THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGY -- specifically, in Chapter. 3. Reality, in the section entitled "The Epistemic Refutation of Monotheism."