What is wrong with theistic beliefs?
November 16, 2018 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2018 at 7:14 pm by Whateverist.)
Okay, most of the theists who come here are suffering from something if only a persecution complex. But I'd like to know what we atheists think is wrong with theistic thinking in most cases. Your gut reaction will do fine but feel free to say why you think that.
Theistic thinking is off because believers are:
1) suffering from a delusion, defined here as a persistent false belief;
2) under the spell of an illusion, defined as misinterpreting an actual phenomenon;
3) just plain crazy;
4) or something else altogether, please elaborate.
5) Of course I should include a fuck yourself with your damned poll option too.
Now there may be a variety of causes for the wrong thinking but here we are looking for a diagnosis of the variety of bad thinking they ended up with. I'm going to limit you to one choice for the reason you think is most often to blame. Also I'm making the poll public just because I'm nosy like that.
Theistic thinking is off because believers are:
1) suffering from a delusion, defined here as a persistent false belief;
2) under the spell of an illusion, defined as misinterpreting an actual phenomenon;
3) just plain crazy;
4) or something else altogether, please elaborate.
5) Of course I should include a fuck yourself with your damned poll option too.
Now there may be a variety of causes for the wrong thinking but here we are looking for a diagnosis of the variety of bad thinking they ended up with. I'm going to limit you to one choice for the reason you think is most often to blame. Also I'm making the poll public just because I'm nosy like that.
