RE: What is the best counter argument against "What do you lose by believing?"
April 29, 2021 at 6:56 pm
Believing in things you cannot prove leads to other faulty, damaging thinking. You want to always maintain a critical and skeptical mind because it will lead you to act on other things based on the best information you have available. Believing in god robs you of this rational defense.
Believing in a personal god robs you of yourself. If a god that always listens to your internal thoughts, thus robbing you of your sense of privacy in your own head, the one thing that is truly ours and not taken away by others. You'll always feel violated and watched and judged for your thoughts.
If it's a personal god that "speaks" to you through emotions, like a burning busom, or by intuitive thoughts and inspiration, it robs you of the ability to recognize the language of your own mind and being able to recognize and analyze your own emotions. These are crucial things to maintaining emotional and mental health, being able to "hear" yourself from the inside. Attributing those things to a god invading and influencing you erases your ability to take responsibility for your own creativity and emotions.
Believing in a god makes you arrogant and prideful. Because you believe you are deserving of special, divine attention.
Believing in a personal god robs you of yourself. If a god that always listens to your internal thoughts, thus robbing you of your sense of privacy in your own head, the one thing that is truly ours and not taken away by others. You'll always feel violated and watched and judged for your thoughts.
If it's a personal god that "speaks" to you through emotions, like a burning busom, or by intuitive thoughts and inspiration, it robs you of the ability to recognize the language of your own mind and being able to recognize and analyze your own emotions. These are crucial things to maintaining emotional and mental health, being able to "hear" yourself from the inside. Attributing those things to a god invading and influencing you erases your ability to take responsibility for your own creativity and emotions.
Believing in a god makes you arrogant and prideful. Because you believe you are deserving of special, divine attention.
