(January 6, 2016 at 10:49 pm)Old Baby Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 10:36 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's kind of weird when someone says you need to submit to someone you can't be sure exists, before you can find reason to believe he exists. That's brainwashing 101.
Weird thing is, even though I agree with you 100%, I haven't been out of my belief long enough to laugh off what she says. I have to stop and consider if she's right, even though it seems totally irrational to me. Is my unbelief a delusion I've created to bury my deep seeded desire to be a sinner? Yes, that seems ridiculously irrational to me, because I can honestly say that it's in my best interest to know and believe in what is true, no matter what that is.
You can think about it this way - even if some religion were correct, the probability that you of all people happen to be brought up in the true faith is minuscule. To you it appears to be believe X or not to believe X, where X to you ist the most obvious thing to beluege in lieu of nothing. Whereas to any outsider it is one of thousands of weird tales obviously cobbled together by people over the course of the last centuries.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
