RE: New theistic chew toys wanted!
August 28, 2021 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2021 at 2:05 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(August 28, 2021 at 9:45 am)Spongebob Wrote:(August 28, 2021 at 9:20 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: If your belief in God brings you happiness, Ahri, I'm cool with that. IMO, it's one of the valid reasons to believe.
From the perspective of the religion itself, happiness is not a valid reason. If the Christian god is who the Bible says he is, then that's the only justification. God is who god says god is and that god demands adulation from humans. There's absolutely nothing in the Bible that remotely suggests god will make you happy if you believe in him and follow his commandments.
Well, I don't take orders from the Bible. My policy is: if believing in God makes someone happy, that makes it a reasonable thing to do.
It's not something that could ever make me happy. The potential falseness of the belief would be like a pebble in my shoe. And I'd want to remove that pebble (as I indeed have). Other people, it seems, don't have that issue. It brings them comfort and joy to believe. I say: "Cool, man. I don't think you're justified in holding the belief. But at least you're happy."
