RE: Still struggling.
February 8, 2016 at 11:47 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2016 at 11:48 pm by Brian37.)
(February 8, 2016 at 10:08 pm)KUSA Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 10:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Yes, but without knowing the tactics of theists, "that just sounds silly" isn't enough. Plenty of laypersons can scoff at something only later to be sucked into the trap of a slick snake oil salesman. Kid have a better excuse for swallowing it because they are too young to understand the importance of critical thinking. But even adults can basically not care either way, then suddenly have an event that shakes them, to where they feel the need to find "something" to give them a sense they are not alone, even if what they pick is completely false.
And there literally IS a scientific explanation as to why humans gap fill with god claims, and that as well is important to understand as well.
So while Hitchens was right "That which can be asserted without evidence can be easily dismissed without evidence" or the layperson's version "If it sound too good to be true, it probably is", while true, still isn't enough.
I understand what you are saying as I was once a Christian. But now, after actually reading the bible and looking at the facts, I couldn't be converted back without God himself appearing before me.
I got you, but even with that, be careful, it is not impossible for human beings to go from lucid, to having a future mental illness or or brain disease. The lucid you now, sure, I couldn't go back either now that I know the scientific reality. But I can't insure my brain will always be scientifically lucid. Our bodies are imperfect and can have problems with disease and age that would cause us to do and say things we would not in a healthy lucid state.
"Not in my right mind". Yep, but only when you are in your right mind.