Short message for the Religious
December 22, 2015 at 9:16 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2015 at 9:17 pm by Heat.)
For those religious who like to tell Atheists "You just believe what other people tell you"
I've seen this used quite a bit on this forum.
You get all your beliefs from a book.
Don't talk to me about "just believing what other people tell me", because by definition you're the extremist version of this case. And for the record, even if all I did was believe what others tell me, so what? If all I had to go on was testimony, I would much rather believe someone who explains how something works, and why their position is true, even if it turns out to be completely wrong, in comparison to someone who doesn't even address the argument in the first place.
I've seen this used quite a bit on this forum.
You get all your beliefs from a book.
Don't talk to me about "just believing what other people tell me", because by definition you're the extremist version of this case. And for the record, even if all I did was believe what others tell me, so what? If all I had to go on was testimony, I would much rather believe someone who explains how something works, and why their position is true, even if it turns out to be completely wrong, in comparison to someone who doesn't even address the argument in the first place.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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There is God and there is man, it's only a matter of who created whom
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The more questions you ask, the more you realize that disagreement is inevitable, and communication of this disagreement, irrelevant.
