(June 29, 2017 at 10:49 am)Khemikal Wrote: No action? I think you're getting silly again. A commitment to buddhist or christer thought and practice is required in both cases.
No religious system holds out a free lunch. How would the shamans get paid, then?
Believing, by force of will, is absolutely an action, whether or not you are required to perform any mechanical actions in accordance with it. Having to contemplate the proposition, weigh it against what you know and what you feel, there's no way that at a minimum some demand is being made on the person so it's an imposition on some level at the very least. I hate when people try to make it sound like "Oh, it's that easy!" like they're above that whole thing. This is why some of my favorite authors are right when they say there's no Eastern solution to the problem of faith.
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.
