(October 29, 2016 at 1:22 pm)robvalue Wrote: I feel that most threads made by theists on here are attempts to make themselves feel better about their beliefs.
Just my opinion.
I agree 100%
It's basically an attempt of self-bolstering and self-reinforcing through confirmation bias and other rationalizations and biases in order to cope with the cognitive dissonance that comes with having beliefs based on a conceptualization of a re-definition of truth that is emotional and subjective (for example, "the truth is whatever God or 'godly authorities' says it is") rather than based on the concept of objective reality (for example, as per the standard correspondence theory of truth that most people subscribe to intuitively (that basically the truth is what corresponds to reality) even if they don't philosophically).
