RE: Question for Christians and Muslims
February 5, 2019 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 5, 2019 at 11:41 am)tackattack Wrote: It is dangerous to hold to your principles unwaveringly. It makes me narrow minded in some things, and I'll readily admit that. I could also say out loud that "God is not real" and "God is really Satan" because I don't believe blasphemy is with the tongue, but with that heart. It's not for my belief in God that I wouldn't take the bet, it for my principles on living with the gains of my actions. It's the same reason I wouldn't prostitute myself for money, or take money I find on the street; I didn't do anything worth earning it. Principles for people are axiomatic to the subjective self in the same way that there are universal laws of physics, etc. I don't hedge my bets on principles. Do you hedge your bets that 2+2=4 or that the color green is not purple? Just because my evidence doesn't meet your standards, or that you don't accept it as evidence,doesn't make it any less real for me. I am very pragamtist and realist in a lot of things in my life. Principles are not one of those things, I know what I believe and why I believe it, where a lot of my faults lie and how far I'd go in a lot of scenarios.
If the OP would restate the OP to say You have no way of saving your family trapped in another room, and they will die if you don't privately profess your love of Thor from another room. I would do that. It wouldn't affect anyone other than me and God knows my heart. If I had to do that in front of my family and there was truly no way to save any of us, I hope my family would forgive me for not doing it.
Really? This is all you’ve got to justify pretending an intelligent human could not make more practical good out of $100,000 than to more than offset the zero harm that would come from utter a statement that he regards as untrue but which no one would hear?
If shouting 2+2=bizallion nets me $100,000, then 2+2=4 will remain true and hold me no grudge, unlike your petty and never-real-to-begin-with god, if I shout 2+2=bizallion.
