(July 21, 2015 at 6:26 am)Alex K Wrote: I don't understand the question. If you believe the religion is true, then whether you like it or not doesn't really figure into it. We don't reject gravity either when we break a leg falling down the stairs
Yes, that was my take on some things when I was a Christian. I did not like the second-place position of women, but not being master of the universe, my opinion counted for little. The most I felt I could do was not push any of that crap, without violating any of it.
I remember talking with one Christian, years after I became an atheist, who flatly said that God was evil. Her reasoning? Just look at the stories in the Bible. That God character is a nasty piece of work. But being nasty does not make something nonexistent. If it did, the world would be a much better place. Anyway, she did not want to burn in hell forever. But she did not like God at all. Although I do not respect her belief in Christianity, I do respect her clear thinking about the morality of the God character.
If you believe things based on whether you like them or not, that is an informal fallacy with a name: Wishful thinking. Even though people are often prone to it, it is a really stupid way of thinking.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
