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In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 7, 2025 at 12:57 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(May 7, 2025 at 12:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What…what ABOUT Bigfoot??

Boru

I suppose I am an abigfootist.

This means, of course, that you have a relationship with the big fella. 🤣

Boru
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 7, 2025 at 12:51 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: How does "I don't believe in a god or gods" translate to a belief?

I don't believe in Bigfoot either...also, not a belief.

Your lack of belief in Bigfoot, doesn't dent John's ego, as his entire worldview doesn't depend on believing they are real.
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
Quote:Correct; it almost certainly plays a role and colors the way I evaluate evidence for them.
Nope in no way shape or form
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 7, 2025 at 1:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 7, 2025 at 12:57 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I suppose I am an abigfootist.

This means, of course, that you have a relationship with the big fella. 🤣

Boru

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(May 7, 2025 at 12:56 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Looks like we are finally getting to real meat of this. Jonny thinks non belief is actually belief. I also assume the thinks bald is a hair color and Powering your TV Off is just another channel.
I suspect that he only thinks this about the lack of one particular belief.
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 7, 2025 at 12:57 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(May 7, 2025 at 12:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What…what ABOUT Bigfoot??

Boru

I suppose I am an abigfootist.

How do you feel about the Sasquatchapalians and the Yetish movement?
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 7, 2025 at 1:03 pm)Sheldon Wrote:
(May 7, 2025 at 12:56 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Looks like we are finally getting to real meat of this. Jonny thinks non belief is actually belief. I also assume the thinks bald is a hair color and Powering your TV Off is just another channel.
I suspect that he only thinks this about the lack of one particular belief.

Fair enough
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 7, 2025 at 12:58 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:
(May 7, 2025 at 12:49 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Would it be safe to say, John, that the reason you don't believe in other gods, and do believe in the one god among thousands that you do, is that you have negative attitudes about the others and a positive attitude about the one?

Correct; it almost certainly plays a role and colors the way I evaluate evidence for them.
So it's pure emotional projection then, I thought as much.
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 7, 2025 at 12:56 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Looks like we are finally getting to real meat of this. Jonny thinks non belief is actually belief. I also assume the thinks bald is a hair color and Powering your TV Off is just another channel.

We do tend to think, in error, that other people are more or less like us.  It goes a long way to greasing the gears of social interaction.  Imagine compulsively wondering whether the other guy was a cannibal.  Or, if you're a cannibal...that he might not be.  Fucking weirdo!  

If the reason John doesn't believe in the mountain of other gods comes down to them giving him the badfeels, the reason he believes in a particular one being that it gives him goodfeels, and not anything about the facts of their existence per se, he would be likely to assume as much about others.  We could approach any of his other comments through the same prism.  Why did he hilariously believe that people who jump out of planes must feel more or less about their chutes like he feels about a god? Because he doesn't know better, he only knows himself.  Conversely, why did he believe that religious faith was a trust with good reason™..because he..is faithless.
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Maybe we could stage a fight. 100 chupacabras against 1 Sasquatch…

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