Nicely put thoughtful. I was wondering if love would be a good example of something similar to the religious feeling people experience. How do you scientifically quantify love? & how does that differ from a description of faith, in evidential terms.
There are hopefully two people reciprocating with love, but then maybe that's love x 2. Love is personal to the giver surely, and unquantifiable to the receiver. You can offer gifts and service, but you do that with religion too. You may be fooling yourself and are therefore delusional. It's possible.
Dunno. Just trying to figure it out.
If you rationally dismiss faith, do you have to dismiss love too? If not, on what grounds?
I as a Christian obviously look at it very differently to a non Christian. For instance I see Christianity as completely positive and constructive. Yes it's had the opposite effect but then that's only when people corrupt it. For a non Christian the idea of faith is ridiculous, because you don't accept that the object of faith exists. I'm sure there's something lacking in stripping out parts of human experience as invalid when there are a lot of people who get positive benefit from it. A bit like the 1984 thought police it's seems a step too far.
There are hopefully two people reciprocating with love, but then maybe that's love x 2. Love is personal to the giver surely, and unquantifiable to the receiver. You can offer gifts and service, but you do that with religion too. You may be fooling yourself and are therefore delusional. It's possible.
Dunno. Just trying to figure it out.
If you rationally dismiss faith, do you have to dismiss love too? If not, on what grounds?
I as a Christian obviously look at it very differently to a non Christian. For instance I see Christianity as completely positive and constructive. Yes it's had the opposite effect but then that's only when people corrupt it. For a non Christian the idea of faith is ridiculous, because you don't accept that the object of faith exists. I'm sure there's something lacking in stripping out parts of human experience as invalid when there are a lot of people who get positive benefit from it. A bit like the 1984 thought police it's seems a step too far.
