(September 4, 2018 at 2:50 pm)alpha male Wrote:(September 4, 2018 at 2:32 pm)polymath257 Wrote: And how many have been beaten, imprisoned, or killed for denying the prevalent religious views?
The opposition to an idea in no way proves the rationality of that idea. If anything, thinking you have a message to humanity from a deity seems much more irrational than thinking you have one from garden gnomes.
That people undergo suffering in order to deliver a message from god is evidence that they believe that they actually received a message from god. Since no one has undergone suffering for gnomes, there is more evidence for god than for gnomes. That evidence isn't conclusive - it is called a faith after all - but it's irrational to compare the evidence for the Christian God with that for gnomes and say it's identical.
That people actually believe a delusion isn't evidence it isn't a delusion.
