(February 26, 2019 at 5:55 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(February 26, 2019 at 5:21 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: You don't know if there are specific criteria. It could be all kinds of other things, like having experienced the hypocrisy of religionists, abuse from religionists, and all sorts of other unconscious or sub-conscious aversions.
That's true.
There are all kinds of reasons why people can reject claims. There are good reasons and less good reasons. That's why it's good for us to be aware of our reasons and not claim that we don't have them.
So then, your commitment to your criteria allows you to categorize the criteria others are committed to, and make absolute generalizations about them.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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