RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
September 4, 2015 at 1:59 pm
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Exactly. If someone will not properly evaluate their beliefs, then they will be apt to believe all sorts of nonsense. This is also why religion is corrosive of morals, as an unwillingness to subject ideas to proper scrutiny leads to nonsense in morality just like it does in ordinary matters of fact.
(September 4, 2015 at 1:23 pm)robvalue Wrote: Religion isn't about facts. It's about dispensing altogether with the logical part of your brain, at least while thinking about this subject.
The whole thing is already entirely unsupported nonsense. It's particularly bad regarding Jesus because without the later added forged extra ending, even the original account of Jesus did not demonstrate he had ressurected. It ends with some guy spreading a rumour that he has resurrected. Yes, I'm serious. If you're prepared to take the word of a probably fictional character, even within the context of a story written entirely on hearsay, you have taken leave of your senses.
So really, the only thing that is going to deconvert people is them making a choice to properly evaluate their beliefs. This could be in terms of how well they are supported by evidence, or by looking at the huge moral issues involved with the kind of character they are worshipping, and the way it promotes bypassing your own morality.
Exactly. If someone will not properly evaluate their beliefs, then they will be apt to believe all sorts of nonsense. This is also why religion is corrosive of morals, as an unwillingness to subject ideas to proper scrutiny leads to nonsense in morality just like it does in ordinary matters of fact.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
