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Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?

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Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
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Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 2:19 pm
Atheists get asked what it would take for them to decide to believe in a deity so I think that it would be interesting to ask theists the opposite question. What would it take for you to stop believing in god?
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 2:22 pm (This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 2:23 pm by Tonus.)
Well, most atheists were theists at one point, so I guess we have a few answers already. Big Grin

For me, it was the realization that I was trying to fit square pegs in round holes. I wasn't really aware that I was putting my belief system through a critical examination, but that's what happened. And I simply reached my particular breaking point, where I just didn't have enough fingers to plug all of the holes in what I thought was true.

Maybe that's what it comes down to: how willing are you to put your beliefs to a critical examination all the way through, and where is the point at which the admit that you can't keep the structure from collapsing?
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 2:40 pm
Would love to see the answers to this one. But I'm predicting one of the answers would be "nothing, because I KNOW for a fact that my faith/god/religion is real".
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 2:46 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 2:40 pm)DarkHorse Wrote: Would love to see the answers to this one. But I'm predicting one of the answers would be "nothing, because I KNOW for a fact that my faith/god/religion is real".
Yep, and of course the caveat that atheists who were theist were not actually true theists in the first place bollocks.
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 3:17 pm
I don't really know. I suppose if I found out I was being dishonest with myself in order to preserve my belief.
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Your belief of ouch don't do that? :p
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 3:22 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 3:17 pm)rasetsu Wrote: I don't really know. I suppose if I found out I was being dishonest with myself in order to preserve my belief.

What's preserving your beliefs now that isn't dishonest?

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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 3:32 pm (This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 3:34 pm by Darkstar.)
(January 22, 2015 at 2:40 pm)DarkHorse Wrote: Would love to see the answers to this one. But I'm predicting one of the answers would be "nothing, because I KNOW for a fact that my faith/god/religion is real".

I'm going to second that prediction.
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 4:00 pm
I hope that some of the theists answer this question.
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RE: Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?
January 22, 2015 at 5:14 pm
I don't think you can answer this question.
It's impossible to prove that unicorns don't exsist, why would God be any different?
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