Can you choose to believe 1 + 1 = 3? Seriously?
What if I placed a single apple on a table and you did the same. Then we each counted, and found there are now two apples on the table.
Could you have so deluded yourself by choice into believing there should now be 3 apples on the table so that you would now be astonished to see that there are actually only two?
I can't do that. I doubt you can either.
I don't doubt that you can self-delude yourself into believing something that isn't so obviously false as 1 + 1 = 3. You just avert your eyes or plug your ears or wall off your mind when you are confronted with evidence that your belief isn't true. But atheists don't do that. We embrace evidence and once learned, cannot easily be unlearned. And why would a person who embraces logic want to deliberately delude himself.
You speak of willfully embracing faith. That is the same as deliberate, self-delusion. I can no more do that to myself than deliberately bash myself in the head with a hammer.
What if I placed a single apple on a table and you did the same. Then we each counted, and found there are now two apples on the table.
Could you have so deluded yourself by choice into believing there should now be 3 apples on the table so that you would now be astonished to see that there are actually only two?
I can't do that. I doubt you can either.
I don't doubt that you can self-delude yourself into believing something that isn't so obviously false as 1 + 1 = 3. You just avert your eyes or plug your ears or wall off your mind when you are confronted with evidence that your belief isn't true. But atheists don't do that. We embrace evidence and once learned, cannot easily be unlearned. And why would a person who embraces logic want to deliberately delude himself.
You speak of willfully embracing faith. That is the same as deliberate, self-delusion. I can no more do that to myself than deliberately bash myself in the head with a hammer.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
