RE: What would you do if you found out God existed
November 2, 2017 at 9:08 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2017 at 9:11 am by Cyberman.)
(November 2, 2017 at 8:59 am)Captain_Nemo Wrote:(November 2, 2017 at 8:51 am)Cyberman Wrote: Faith = reasonable expectation is not equivalent to faith = blind hope. Especially where such hope is completely without justification.
So there is a kind of faith that is reasonable and how do You determine if a user of a religious system is using the word in the right way?
Simple. Is the object of the faith a thing that exists in reality, or can have some effect on reality? Further, is there a justification to suspect that there might be such a thing? Then the faith is justified.
One can have 'faith', ie a reasonable expectation, that the Sun will rise tomorrow based on previous instances when the Sun has risen. It might be the case that it doesn't, but that doesn't invalidate the expectation. A faith that the Sun will turn into a giant smiley face is not a reasonable expectation and has no justification to warrant it.
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.'
