RE: Question about "faith"
September 17, 2020 at 1:36 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2020 at 1:55 am by Sal.)
(September 16, 2020 at 10:16 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: What information are you appraising when you assess whether or not something exists ?
Sensory input.
Unlike faith, patriotism at least is correlated to a notion of pride/love/devotion to one's country. I'm pretty sure countries exist.
Although I like living in the country I was born in, I don't have any particular strong emotion attached to it, like patriotism would, despite my upbringing in its culture. Reason being I would probably feel different and be different if I was born in any other country. Maybe I would hate being born in Iran, or be patriotic if I was born in Peru. I would be very different in any difference in graphical location of birth. That seems to me to invalidate giving praise for starting conditions and geographical location, no matter who I was. I guess my point is, why would someone be patriotic? This seems to me to be tangentially related to faith.
