(November 14, 2016 at 2:48 pm)Tonus Wrote: The thing is, I don't have one level of 'care' for the things I hold to be true. And the human brain is so weird that I don't think we consistently apply a specific amount of 'care' to things we know to be true. The reason why we care a lot/little for something might be buried deep in our subconscious so that we have no clue why a seemingly minor thing affects us far more deeply than an event that should be much more meaningful.
I know this, based on my experiences as both a believer and a non-believer: if I discover that God is real, the effect on my life would likely be negligible unless it's a completely different God than the ones we've had pitched to us as the real one(s). [1] The Gods that theists here describe is the one that lives in the blind spots of our minds and only survives on a steady diet of cognitive biases and complicated logical fallacies. [2] If there really is a God and it decides to inform me that it is real, it would need to provide more than just that fact to make me feel anything aside from morbid curiosity. [3]
1) This is the one possibility to which I hope you remain open. I won't pretend to be the one who will provide this possibility for you, but it is my hope. I don't mean to imply I have a different god than any other Christian, but I try to form a fuller picture of the Christian god every day. Being able to communicate that picture... not so easy.
2) Fair assessment.
3) Fair enough.
