RE: What God's justification for eternal torment?
December 15, 2020 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2020 at 9:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Id say that a person who incorporates consistent thoughts on cognitive propositions is pretty much the opposite of an ignoramus, even if they happen to be considering content and propositions which seem silly to you or I or anyone else on their face. It's not a comment on the quality of the content of the proposition, but the quality of our handling of those propositions.
If we insist that something might be provably true, but balk at the possibility of it being provably false (or worse, in context of moral justifications...even worse -if- true) then we were not genuine in our initial assertion of the proposition. It was, more likely, the assertion of a defense mechanism for a cherished belief. The codification of a cognitive bias by fiat. Only informative if it's true, but not informative at all if it's false or worse-if-true.
If we insist that something might be provably true, but balk at the possibility of it being provably false (or worse, in context of moral justifications...even worse -if- true) then we were not genuine in our initial assertion of the proposition. It was, more likely, the assertion of a defense mechanism for a cherished belief. The codification of a cognitive bias by fiat. Only informative if it's true, but not informative at all if it's false or worse-if-true.
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