(September 3, 2019 at 12:51 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The universal and indispensable foundation of theism is the refusal to accept reality as deduced from a sound and validatable process and determination to assert something else in its place that feels more comfortable. The theist in most cases could not very well admit what is comfortable has no valid reason to be thought of as being true, because doing so would destroy his ability to derive comfort from the comfortable. If comfort is that important, and one has already crossed the cognitive Rubicon to embrace what provides comfort in place of what is more probably true, then there is relatively unlikely to be any other serious cognitive barrier against embracing whatever more wish thinking intellectual self-deception is required to defend the intellectually indefensible.
Hence, in many if not most cases, the Christian claiming not to be a fundamentalist is already in for the penny, and has torn out any innate intellectual safeguards against also being in for the pound.
I personally have no problem with anyone adopting a position because it's comforting for them, but as soon as one comes here to defend such position and in such a confident manner, then they're acting like it's intellectual and it's understandable to expect them to back up their position with something concrete rather than arguing from ignorance or appealing to their personal intuitions ... or adopting naive and clearly false understanding of cognitive/developmental social/psychological phenomena ...
