RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 19, 2015 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2015 at 5:13 pm by Pyrrho.)
You should take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
Since you are a Christian, who spends a lot of time with Christians, you are likely to meet more Christians who are joyous than nonChristians who are joyous. And more Christians who are not joyous than nonChristians who are not joyous.
Also, of course, you probably don't have a very precise method of determining who is joyous and who isn't. Without that, your musings on the matter are of little value.
You are also discussing a motive to believe something, rather than a reason to believe it. If you take a lot of morphine, you will feel no pain. But it does not make one suddenly wise or correct in one's view of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
Since you are a Christian, who spends a lot of time with Christians, you are likely to meet more Christians who are joyous than nonChristians who are joyous. And more Christians who are not joyous than nonChristians who are not joyous.
Also, of course, you probably don't have a very precise method of determining who is joyous and who isn't. Without that, your musings on the matter are of little value.
You are also discussing a motive to believe something, rather than a reason to believe it. If you take a lot of morphine, you will feel no pain. But it does not make one suddenly wise or correct in one's view of the world.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
