On Hell and Forgiveness

[Amarok]

You realize that simply strenging sentences together and calling it an inductive argument doesn't actually meet the bar, right?  

The book of gnome says garden gnomes exist

Many people have seen garden gnomes.

There's no other way gardens could grow without garden gnomes

Hey, I don't have to be right....but it's rational..right?

I know that my favorite" i don't have to be correct but hey it sounds nice so that's all i need " this along with shit like Reformed Epistemology And Presup demonstrate what a weak view theism is .

---

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.

Indeed conviction does not equal correctness and people do indeed die for lies even ones they know to be lies .