RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
August 31, 2018 at 8:55 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2018 at 8:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It would be a short convo, mostly because it's trivially easy to show that the faithful have a strong preference for their fantasy over any reality where their fantasy is..well.. a fantasy. They don't even mind saying so.
The reason that they don't think of it as a delusion is that they're convinced god is really real...but amusingly, their beliefs about gods wouldn't escape notice as irrational by default of a gods existence. I think we'd be hard pressed to find a single human being who doesn't have some irrational beliefs about very real things which they would prefer to be true even if they weren't or aren't.
The reason that they don't think of it as a delusion is that they're convinced god is really real...but amusingly, their beliefs about gods wouldn't escape notice as irrational by default of a gods existence. I think we'd be hard pressed to find a single human being who doesn't have some irrational beliefs about very real things which they would prefer to be true even if they weren't or aren't.
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