(January 31, 2017 at 4:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 30, 2017 at 11:19 pm)Astonished Wrote: It's certainly a tall order to come up with a truly irrational belief that is completely benign.
Not a tall order at all. There's a pen here on my desk. I hold the truly irrational belief that the pen is self-aware and spends all of its time thinking up new names for cloud formations.
Boru
Is it a belief held with the same unshakeable conviction you get from most theists' beliefs? Otherwise it doesn't seem to fit the bill. Kind of like the flying spaghetti monster...nobody really believes in it, it's just a response to how ridiculous the idea of theism is in general. If you're just making up something, it hardly compares to actually believing wholeheartedly in something irrational because the latter is actually going to affect your decisions and behavior.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
