RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
August 31, 2018 at 12:34 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2018 at 12:42 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(August 30, 2018 at 9:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Oh. So religious people are delusional but not in a delusional way. But don't be offended if I say you share all the attributes of being mentally ill and use the same word to describe you as I would to describe the mentally ill because words only mean what I want them to mean so I can be mean and dismissive without sounding mean and dismissive.
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(August 30, 2018 at 10:50 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(August 30, 2018 at 10:45 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: It’s not argumentum ad populum, but addresses the definition given. That would require a different argument which appeals to popularity of a belief.
I can't really say this has been the most productive debate. If you are using numbers of adherents to a belief system to qualify it as delusional, then atheists are delusional.
If adherence to what is plausibly real is your metric, theists are.
He's not saying numbers make a belief true. He is saying that according to the definition given of the word delusional, theistic beliefs are not delusional. Because they are "generally accepted as reality".
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
