RE: Atheism. The UNscientific belief (part two)
October 15, 2015 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2015 at 3:01 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(October 15, 2015 at 2:25 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: yes it has there are beliefs about God that exist today that did not even exist 20 years ago .
Like what? Name one. (Keep in mind - "belief" is not the same as "knowledge". Anyone can make up new things to believe in.)
(October 15, 2015 at 2:25 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: why do you think we believe in God yet do not believe in fairies ?
Yes, exactly - why DON'T you believe in fairies? Has anyone disproved fairies? Who and when? Mind you - there are still people who DO believe in fairies.
It's simple - superstitions fall in and out of popularity. Just like art does. Holywood used to make a lot of Westerns 50 years ago. They don't make them almost at all anymore - is that because the knowledge somehow progressed? Or simply because the public got bored of the subject?
(October 15, 2015 at 2:25 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: if we just have overactive imaginations and believe in fantasy creatures why do so many only believe in one and not all ?
Because a lot of those fantasies are mutually exclusive. For example evangelical christian can't believe in fairies, or - I don't know - smurfs, because they're not in the bible.
Although it's also true, that people who believe in one form of superstition usually believe in more than one.
Like believers in aliens tend to also believe in governmental conspiracies, because those two go very well together (we have no evidence of alien presence, so government must be covering a lot of stuff).
It's difficult to tell how people, who reject logic decide on what is and what isn't believable.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
