Atheists in church

[Simon Moon]

Don't you care if your beliefs are true, or at least, likely to be true?

They don't need to be rationally grounded, if you are fine with not knowing if your beliefs are true, but some us care if our beliefs comport with reality.

And the funny thing is, I'll bet, with regards to most other aspects of your life, your beliefs are entirely rationally grounded.

I'll bet you make sure all the evidence demonstrates the street is clear of vehicles before you cross. I'll bet, if you had cancer, you'd base your decision to go to doctors to treat it, on rationality and evidence, as opposed to being irrational choice going to a 'psychic surgeon'. If you had a carton of milk that was a couple of weeks past its use by date, you'd choose the rational choice and pour it down the drain.

I could list dozens more examples where I am sure your decisions are completely rationally grounded....

Well yeah, but religious beliefs, which are personal beliefs, don't have to be rational. I don't see a need for confirming personal beliefs to be rational.

So you have a belief, or set of beliefs, that you have no idea if they are true or not. Worse yet, you don't even have a method to test if they are true or not.

Why do you carve out this certain set of beliefs, to protect them from rational examination?

The most accepted definition of "belief" by philosophers of mind, is the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition to be true, or likely true. A belief is the state in which one is convinced that something is true.

So, you are convinced that your religious beliefs are true. What has convinced you?

Everyone has beliefs. Some of us care if they are true or not.