RE: A postscript to "what happened to me"
July 31, 2019 at 7:35 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2019 at 7:36 am by vulcanlogician.)
(July 31, 2019 at 6:41 am)Belaqua Wrote:(July 31, 2019 at 5:35 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Overall, atheists may not be any more reasonable than other groups. But that doesn't have anything to do with their atheism. It has everything to do with their "group-ness."
Right, it has to do with all of us being human. We are all capable of thinking we are being reasonable when we aren't.
And group-ness helps unreasonableness a lot. Mutual reinforcement. None of us is immune.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool."
-- Richard Feynman
Absolutely. And this is very true of atheists on atheist forums. It might even be true of theists if (for sake of example) theists got together on a certain day of the week in moldy buildings and pronounced --by fiat-- that they recognized a truth that others didn't. Not that theists would ever do that or anything... but even if theists DID do that sort of thing on a weekly basis, you could be assured that they would be careful to recognize that there are a plurality of beliefs to be considered.
Atheists brashly assert materialistic philosophy as if it was the most plausible of all metaphysical theories. How narrow-minded of them!
Theists, on the other hand, would never be so narrow-minded. Atheists like to think that a great number of theists think that atheists deserve to burn and suffer for eternity just because they doubt the existence of their god. But no theist thinks that. Not a single one. And certainly not thousands and thousands of them.
That would be a weird thing for a group of people to communally believe, wouldn't it? But you got me thinking, Belaqua. I don't ever seem to have heard a single atheist say something like "theists should burn and suffer for eternity because they don't agree with me." Have you ever heard a single atheist say anything like that? I agree. Atheists can be quite opinionated at times. But I don't think I've ever heard a single atheist say that theists deserve to burn and suffer for eternity. Funny, huh?
Maybe I'm just not paying close enough attention.
