RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 8, 2018 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2018 at 2:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 8, 2018 at 12:40 pm)Quick Wrote:(May 8, 2018 at 9:12 am)Khemikal Wrote: Not because you have doubts, lol..but because I;ve heard your non-reasons. One of them was that your silly beliefs give you purpose in life. That strongly implies that it does matter whether or not those silly beliefs are accurate...and particularly so if you think you'd lose your sense of purpose in life if you stopped believing in silliness by non reasons.
That would be true if I was immune to bias and I had a good understanding of reality, but I don't and neither do you. People are not robots and they don't actually think all that rationally. Because of this, what people believe and the reasons for them go a hell of a lot deeper than what someone can rationalize. It's a pretty self evident thing, it's just that I admit it is happening when a lot of people do not.
Of course it;s happening..but it;s not really germane to what I;m commenting on. You explained to us that your beliefs give you a sense of purpose..and that because of this it;s not really that important to you whether or not they are accurate. You also explained..however, that if you could not maintain those beliefs..the sense of purpose in your life would vanish.
In that context, it doesn;t really matter whether you come to believe that the contents of your faith are accurate (or abandon that notion) for rational or completely batshit reasons. Only that the change in your appraisal of those things has a profound effect. An effect that just might alter your perception of things "outside of god"...even.
Can you see how these two claims are diametrically opposed, and how they present a situation incongruent with many other comments you've made in regards to your appraisal of your own faith and faith in gods in general, as well?
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