(May 9, 2017 at 6:34 am)alpha male Wrote: If you applied that consistently in all areas of your life, you might have something. But you don't. No one does. People require much less evidence for things they want to accept, than for things they don't want to accept.Exactly. Believers want to believe. I think most just believe in believing. And, since you want to believe, you're willing to sweep aside anything that might change that belief.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam