RE: The benefits of being christian. Where are there???
December 25, 2017 at 11:13 am
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2017 at 12:10 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(December 25, 2017 at 10:58 am)Grandizer Wrote:(December 24, 2017 at 11:38 pm)Starhunter Wrote: That's like saying, "I find it incredibly hard to believe how people can fall in love and actually produce another living human being, that believe it or not, starts off as a helpless and dependant baby, without using critical thinking skills."
Read this too many times and still makes no sense to me.
I think what SH is saying is that one arrives at religious truths without critical thinking, much the same way that a baby is produced without critical thinking. What his proposition fails to recognize, however, is that critical thinking prevents error by subjecting all ideas to scrutiny. Critical thinking isn't about producing an idea. It's about finding the right idea. He thinks critical thinking is like "inventing" or "giving birth to" ideas-- no. It's a process whereby an idea's validity is tested.
IMO (assuming that I have correctly interpreted SH's statement) it is a bad analogy.
(December 24, 2017 at 9:14 pm)Starhunter Wrote: You have never been allowed to experience anything that you could not handle...
Where do Christians get this idea? Anyone who has suffered a traumatic event which caused them to commit suicide was "given more than they could handle" by my definition. It happens, too.
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/co-...uicide.asp
Quote:A body of research indicates that there is a correlation between many types of trauma and suicidal behaviors. For example, there is evidence that traumatic events such as childhood abuse may increase a person's suicide risk (4,5). A history of military sexual trauma (MST) also increases the risk for suicide and intentional self-harm, suggesting a need to screen for suicide risk in this population (6).
"God" gives people more than they can handle all the time. When Christians claim this, does it come with a footnote? (Christians work better with editing powers, don't cha know.)
"Do not bear false witness [unless you don't like the guy or he has offended you]"
"Give away all your wealth [unless you like having your wealth around]"
"Judge not [if it is September 26th 1964 at 3:29 PM and you're standing in the shade, otherwise judge all you want]"
