RE: The most important reason I'm xtian
December 3, 2013 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2013 at 3:04 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 3, 2013 at 4:18 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Mr Spock here speaks of being consistently analytical. How far is this a good thing? I mean clearly there are times when being analytical is appropriate (science, medicine etc), and times when it gets in the way (sex drugs and rock and roll).
Is being consistently analytical a good thing? Personally I'm not convinced. Might be a good thread that.
I guess it depends on whether you care if your beliefs are true, or at least likely to be true, or not.
Most atheist want our internal map of the world to be as close to reality as possible. We understand that this is not entirely possible, but we do know the best way to go about it. And that is basing them on demonstrable evidence, reasoned argument and valid/sound logic.
Quote:However my right brain, the sloshy and emotional bit is still nausatingly in love with the concept of an all knowing and all loving force, loosely defined as "love". In many ways I would like to be an atheist, but to do so would mean giving up my comfort blanket / crack pipe / happy-moist-joy feelings on tap. So no, I'm nowhere near to atheism.
You obviously don't care whether your beliefs are true or not. You'd rather base them on the 'warm fuzzy' feeling they give you.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
