RE: Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)
June 17, 2016 at 4:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2016 at 4:57 am by Veritas_Vincit.)
RoadRunner
When we are talking about a person's belief in God, their concept of God is what matters rather than the dictionary definition, since everyone has a different concept of God. It's pointless to talk about God unless you both agree what you mean by it.
What I'm saying is that it's hard to reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into, and yes - in many cases they do have an ulterior motive, which is protecting the emotional value they get from their religion as described in my original post.
What it is trumping is reason, logic, empiricism. Believing in pseudoscientific woo is a human weakness - as pattern seeking mammals we have evolved to seek agency in what happens in our environment to identify danger - of our ancestors, those who heard a rustle in the grass and assumed it was a predator but were wrong were more likely to survive and pass on their genes than those who didn't think they had enough evidence yet to conclude that it was a predator, until a tiger jumped out and ate them. We have to consciously override our primitive, fallible superstitious nature of we want to have a world view that comports with reality.
When we are talking about a person's belief in God, their concept of God is what matters rather than the dictionary definition, since everyone has a different concept of God. It's pointless to talk about God unless you both agree what you mean by it.
What I'm saying is that it's hard to reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into, and yes - in many cases they do have an ulterior motive, which is protecting the emotional value they get from their religion as described in my original post.
What it is trumping is reason, logic, empiricism. Believing in pseudoscientific woo is a human weakness - as pattern seeking mammals we have evolved to seek agency in what happens in our environment to identify danger - of our ancestors, those who heard a rustle in the grass and assumed it was a predator but were wrong were more likely to survive and pass on their genes than those who didn't think they had enough evidence yet to conclude that it was a predator, until a tiger jumped out and ate them. We have to consciously override our primitive, fallible superstitious nature of we want to have a world view that comports with reality.
