(November 12, 2018 at 12:53 pm)Everena Wrote: But we feel that we do know. I personally know beyond any and all doubt, so I am not going to pretend that I don't.
People feel things, I'm not discounting that. What I am discounting is one's ability to discern feeling something from actual reality.
I may feel that I want fairies to exist because of Tinker Bell was portrayed in the tale of Peter Pan whereby she could only be saved via my clapping. Substitute Tinker Bell with man dying from sin and belief in god being the only salvation, and we have the same equation.
The thing with life is that these equations always end up being the same, which is how we can recognize the false ones from the real ones, because we have to honestly admit that conceptualized faiths often leads to intellectual bondage.