RE: Why people afraid to ask questions about their beliefs?
August 12, 2016 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2016 at 9:09 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 10, 2016 at 6:31 pm)Torin Wrote: Hi guys,
Since i becommed atheist, i also began think more critically (more or less).But why people don't ask questions about their beliefs (not only religious beliefs).I read in one philosophy book that questioning your beliefs is best way to see if they are worth believing in.So what do you guys think, why people don't question on what they hold so dearly, is because of fear, ignorance, or something else ?[...]
Same reason why fat people don't like to weigh themselves and junkies avoid AIDS tests, or reflection upon their heroin problem. Being deluded feels nice, questioning oneself causes anxiety. Humans are creatures of convenience and comfort - truth and logic are an afterthought for most of us.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
