RE: Belief
April 28, 2017 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2017 at 2:33 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(April 28, 2017 at 2:26 pm)Valyza1 Wrote:(April 28, 2017 at 2:17 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: It's like that story about the two wolves. You can't just believe anything you want instantly, but if you feed a belief it will grow stronger and if you starve it, it will grow weaker. It would take a lot of effort, maybe years worth, to get myself to believe one of the various versions of God is real, but if I was determined enough, I'm sure I could convince myself eventually. It would be much easier if instead of getting out of Christianity entirely I was just sort of 'lapsed' but still broadly and weakly a believer. I have a hurdle of overcoming all the things that combined to convince me that God is probably not real.
I suppose at a certain level of belief, it's more important to be true to what you believe than to make any serious effort to get into it or out of the state of believing it.
Does the validity of that belief matter more? If a belief is demonstrably false, and one still holds to it and counts "being true" to it as more important than investigating and determining its validity...that sounds like a bad thing.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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