(August 5, 2015 at 3:47 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(August 4, 2015 at 10:28 pm)Cephus Wrote: Who cares? Happiness isn't a valid demonstration of reality. The most comforting lie in the world is still a lie, the most uncomfortable truth is still the truth. Anyone whose worldview is only based on being happy is an irrational idiot.
I wouldn't base my world view on the most comforting answer. In fact I find it very hard to lie to myself, at least knowingly. But suppose the lie you believe won't materially hurt you or anyone else, AND it makes you much happier. What then? I'm still not sure I'd want to believe a lie, but I can't condemn it in anyone else.
The lie, in and of itself, is harmful, whether you know it's a lie or not. I am dedicated to believing as many true things and as few false things as possible and to know how to tell the difference between the two. Any lie I allow into my head is, by it's very nature, harming me. I think lies harm everyone, whether they acknowledge it or not.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
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