(March 15, 2019 at 2:21 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: A persons response to existential claims and value setting aren't the same thing, though we employ similar language in both cases. If someone told you that they didn't believe in loyalty, for example..they're saying something like "loyalty is a suckers game" - likely not that they don't believe that loyalty exists. Similarly, a person saying that they believe in loyalty is unlikely to be making an existential claim, whereas a person telling you that they believe in god is.
Academic, really, since atheists do "believe things" in the existential sense. Tons of things.
I don't think to believe in God is like believing in loyalty.
To believe in God is likely to mean to worship God, and to worship God means to do his will, so it's all defined by the fruits a person carries that makes him believe in God or not.
Believing in God is not something you do in your head, like thinking for example. It's about being who you are.
