(January 19, 2017 at 4:08 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(January 19, 2017 at 3:28 pm)Khemikal Wrote: All it takes is a childish disposition to believe in tooth fairies -or- god fairies.
You are basically saying that the admirable people I listed in the OP have childish dispositions. How is that not insulting?
Even the most admirable people with impeccable credentials can have childish beliefs and opinions. I'm thinking particularly of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his fairy fetish, but he's hardly alone. Criticising those beliefs is hardly a criticism of them personally, unless it's made to be so. And beliefs should be criticised.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
