RE: When is a Religious Belief Delusional?
September 5, 2018 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2018 at 12:20 pm by Amarok.)
(September 5, 2018 at 11:57 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:Sad thing is he doesn't and likely never will get it. It does not matter how many times you correct him on why testimony cannot make the bible or magic claims credible or how many times you point out that even morality were subjective you can still say something is wrong . He will just repeat the script in over and over .(September 5, 2018 at 11:50 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I think that the answer is that morality is subjective until you call someone by the wrong pronoun, or refuse to bake a cake. And testimony is not evidence, until a rather shady character, testified under pressure against a president that you don’t like.
Morality is subjective. That doesn’t mean some subjective morality can’t through the mechanism adopted by a society to regulate itself be imposed also upon those who disagree.
Think of it this way, even though our morality is technically subjective, if you behave in some ways that you might think is not inconsistent with its being subjective, we will hang you. Got it?
Testimony doesn’t convince me jesus rose again, because there is no evidence other than those testimonies that any such thing is possible at all, much less such a thing instantiated a particular occurance on that occassion. Testimony doe convince me sufficiently trump is criminal during his election Champaign because there is ample evidence besides those testimony that such a thing is possible, and ample evidence the particular criminal trump imstantiated similar occurances of criminal behavior. Got it?
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