RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 8, 2018 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2018 at 2:50 pm by Simon Moon.)
(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 humans are not immune to bias.
But there are tools specifically designed to help eliminate bias. The problem is, you refuse to use them when it comes to your pet belief.
The very fact that you choose your belief because it makes you feel good, as opposed to because it is supported by evidence, is a blatant demonstration that you do no care about what is actually true. Don't you want to know if your beliefs are true, or at least likely true?
And the fact that you think that we are all equally susceptible to our biases, is just plain wrong. Like I said, there are tools that will help eliminate biases.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
