(February 26, 2018 at 11:33 pm)Alexmahone Wrote:(February 26, 2018 at 11:18 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I feel like the answer lies squarely in the definition. (bold mine)
I think that part of the definition is unnecessary. Galileo believed the earth revolved around the sun despite what almost everyone else believed. Was he delusional?
It seems you are alternately focusing on parts of the definition rather than the whole.
Quote:A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly held despite what almost everyone else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary.
Seems to me Galileo's covered.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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