@DvF Then you can qualify your positive assertion as well. I was speaking more to the your belief is right portion though.
1- I don't presume to speak for atheists. However from my conversations with many atheists I've had, our versions of what's real and not are very symetrical. I don't presume to speak for Christians either, just myself.
2- Faith does not deny evidence, faith is without evidence. To deny evidence is belief perseverance which is an extreme form of confimation bias. Rational people don't deny evience presented.
3-There are no gaurentees, however I'll likely die someday and have to pay taxes
4- No I do not have blind faith. It is neither irrational, delusional and is indicative based on personal experience. "blind" is an adjective added to faith to describe a type of faith that practices belief perseverance.
1- Despite DvF's cries of tautology, I've defined it clearly elsewhere as has Ryft and I think I encapsulated it above for you.
2-Depends on your standards of justification, and what you're justifying.
3-comfort and security don't ever trump reason in my book.
4-if your we becasme an I, it would be a more defensible position, because my Faith is justified.
(March 3, 2011 at 7:54 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:
1- I don't presume to speak for atheists. However from my conversations with many atheists I've had, our versions of what's real and not are very symetrical. I don't presume to speak for Christians either, just myself.
2- Faith does not deny evidence, faith is without evidence. To deny evidence is belief perseverance which is an extreme form of confimation bias. Rational people don't deny evience presented.
3-There are no gaurentees, however I'll likely die someday and have to pay taxes
4- No I do not have blind faith. It is neither irrational, delusional and is indicative based on personal experience. "blind" is an adjective added to faith to describe a type of faith that practices belief perseverance.
(March 3, 2011 at 8:06 am)theVOID Wrote:
1- Despite DvF's cries of tautology, I've defined it clearly elsewhere as has Ryft and I think I encapsulated it above for you.
2-Depends on your standards of justification, and what you're justifying.
3-comfort and security don't ever trump reason in my book.
4-if your we becasme an I, it would be a more defensible position, because my Faith is justified.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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