(May 24, 2022 at 4:32 pm)CuriosityBob Wrote:(May 24, 2022 at 5:16 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I don't "choose" not to believe in gods, choice doesn't come into it, belief would come from some testable evidence.
Are you saying on order to 'believe' in something you need testable evidence? Is my understanding correct?
I can't speak for zebo, but I think what they're getting at is we don't choose to believe or not believe. No one does. We believe what we're convinced of and we don't believe what we're not convinced of. Zebo says evidence would convince him, but other people might be persuaded by other things. We're all in the same boat, whether we're convinced of something by evidence or indoctrination, belief is not really a choice.
But here's a caveat: We can choose to try to convince ourselves that something is true. If we work hard enough at it for long enough, we can convince ourselves of almost anything if we want to believe it.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.