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Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay?
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RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay?
(September 27, 2015 at 2:13 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(September 27, 2015 at 1:31 pm)abaris Wrote: Yes, but not everyone is a preaching sanctimonious prick. Most people just believe and leave everyone else in peace. Not everyone is a Randy, so to speak and who am I to pester them?

Yes, but someone can be insincere and not be a sanctimonious prick.  Being a sanctimonious prick is a separate issue.

Additionally, people can harm others without being sanctimonious pricks.  By the way they vote, for example, which affects others.  They vote the way they do because of their beliefs, and so what they believe is a matter than concerns others.

People don't believe things without it affecting their actions.  In fact, one measures the sincerity (reality) of belief by one's actions.  In the OP, we judge the boy's beliefs by his actions.  If he had been unwilling to jump, then we would know that he did not really believe that he could fly.

People's beliefs affect their actions, and their actions affect others.  Consequently, what people believe is something that affects others.
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You don't have to believe in a literal hell to appreciate what he is saying.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Rhondazvous - September 27, 2015 at 1:12 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Minimalist - September 27, 2015 at 1:14 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by robvalue - September 27, 2015 at 1:16 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by brewer - September 27, 2015 at 1:21 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by vorlon13 - September 27, 2015 at 1:24 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by robvalue - September 27, 2015 at 1:28 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Rhondazvous - September 27, 2015 at 6:15 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Pyrrho - September 27, 2015 at 1:31 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by abaris - September 27, 2015 at 1:31 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Pyrrho - September 27, 2015 at 2:13 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Rhondazvous - September 27, 2015 at 6:57 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Rhondazvous - September 27, 2015 at 6:29 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by abaris - September 27, 2015 at 6:32 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by vorlon13 - September 27, 2015 at 1:36 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Aroura - September 27, 2015 at 6:28 pm
RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 27, 2015 at 10:22 pm

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