RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs?
November 17, 2018 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2018 at 6:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 17, 2018 at 6:28 pm)Whateverist Wrote: But I suppose most thoughtful theists would hope it can also be an amplifier for their better nature. Becoming convinced and defensive about it being where it all goes to hell.
@Aliza: Thats "sheol" for you, BTW.
-and that's where we have to ask ourselves to find some good thing that only a believer could do.
Could theistic belief amplify the better angels of our nature? IDK, maybe, it doesn't seem to have done so thusfar, and it may be that the belief sets we've had so far are just shit and one day a better set of beliefs will crop up...but if so, to a greater degree than a non believers better angels can be amplified? There seems to be a fundamental disparity of effect. Mouse in a snakepit, can't say it enough.
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