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Poll: What is wrong with theist beliefs?
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What is wrong with theistic beliefs?
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RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs?
(November 16, 2018 at 10:00 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: We're all laboring under at least a few illusory beliefs or concepts.  If that were the reason that theism were problematic than we could see those same problems in all other examples of illusory beliefs or concepts - but we don't. While the belief in such a god is nothing more or less than the affirmation of the illusory.....it's the fact that this particular illusion is an echo chamber for all of our basest compulsions that makes it problematic.

I think the centrality of the delusion is a factor as well, which isn't under the majority of harmless delusions. Believing it's the most important thing in your life and that it comes from God himself has effects that more mundane beliefs lack.

Who in heck is Gae Bolga?
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What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 16, 2018 at 7:04 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Chad32 - November 16, 2018 at 7:10 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 16, 2018 at 7:18 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Angrboda - November 16, 2018 at 7:36 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Minimalist - November 16, 2018 at 8:36 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Chicken - November 16, 2018 at 8:54 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by vulcanlogician - November 16, 2018 at 8:55 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Grandizer - November 16, 2018 at 9:01 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Ravenshire - November 16, 2018 at 9:31 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Angrboda - November 16, 2018 at 9:41 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by KevinM1 - November 16, 2018 at 9:50 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by vulcanlogician - November 16, 2018 at 9:55 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 16, 2018 at 9:55 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by The Grand Nudger - November 16, 2018 at 10:00 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Angrboda - November 16, 2018 at 10:11 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Fidel_Castronaut - November 16, 2018 at 10:15 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 16, 2018 at 10:26 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by The Grand Nudger - November 16, 2018 at 10:17 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Fidel_Castronaut - November 16, 2018 at 10:20 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 16, 2018 at 10:24 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by KevinM1 - November 17, 2018 at 12:41 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Angrboda - November 17, 2018 at 9:35 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by The Grand Nudger - November 16, 2018 at 10:25 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Gwaithmir - November 16, 2018 at 10:32 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by The Grand Nudger - November 16, 2018 at 10:33 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Rahn127 - November 16, 2018 at 11:04 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by The Grand Nudger - November 16, 2018 at 11:05 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by vulcanlogician - November 16, 2018 at 11:24 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Silver - November 16, 2018 at 11:22 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by MysticKnight - November 17, 2018 at 12:44 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 1:13 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Rahn127 - November 17, 2018 at 6:56 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 4:38 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Angrboda - November 17, 2018 at 8:27 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Reltzik - November 17, 2018 at 7:18 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 17, 2018 at 9:30 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Huggy Bear - November 17, 2018 at 8:31 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 5:21 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 17, 2018 at 5:18 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 17, 2018 at 5:45 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 5:51 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 17, 2018 at 5:56 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 6:09 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 6:19 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 17, 2018 at 6:28 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 6:52 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Whateverist - November 17, 2018 at 8:59 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 6:23 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Aliza - November 17, 2018 at 6:55 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by MysticKnight - November 17, 2018 at 8:21 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by MysticKnight - November 17, 2018 at 9:18 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Fireball - November 17, 2018 at 10:05 pm
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by energizer bunny - November 30, 2018 at 12:12 am
RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs? - by Gwaithmir - November 30, 2018 at 5:04 am

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