RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 3, 2015 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2015 at 2:01 pm by PhilliptheTeenageAtheist.)
(June 3, 2015 at 11:11 am)Drich Wrote: So? does Justified 'belief' then become truth? Or is truth a standard that stays the same despite what is believed? If in this case God offers 'proof' if one follows a prescribed path, yet people feel justified in what they believe even if they never sought the truth God offers, does what the feel justified then become true?Truth stays the same no matter who believes it. However, justified doubt is completely possible even when something is true. For example, if someone in the fourth century BC, long before the invention of the microscope, went around claiming he had a vision about cells, though he had no proof other than his vision which no one else saw, other people would be justified in their disbelief of him, because even though cells exist, there was no proof for them and others could doubt reasonably.
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in god, but even if one did exist, I'm quite confident it wouldn't torture me forever in hell for justifiably doubting its existence.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand Russell
Even if god did exist, he has yet to prove it, and our doubt is justified.
Even if god did exist, he has yet to prove it, and our doubt is justified.
