RE: Is atheism a belief?
February 26, 2019 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2019 at 6:29 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(February 26, 2019 at 6:16 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(February 26, 2019 at 5:55 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Honestly, what reason do you think I would have had at five? I want to hear this.
I can't know that. Unlike some people, I have no faith in my mind reading abilities.
But I'm not so interested in the opinions of kindergarten kids. Thinking adults accept or reject propositions based on criteria. If they accept or reject propositions based on no criteria, they are not reasoning.
Fallacy of the excluded middle. There are all sorts of non-reasoned determinants ... emotional, unspoken, unrecognized, partially recognized etc.
Do people fall in love with their partners due to "reason" ? Valuing reason is itself a criteria. Have you demonstrated it's a good one ?
Maybe their personality type is not INTJ. Maybe they are emotion-driven.
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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