RE: Indoctrination
January 21, 2022 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2022 at 2:01 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 21, 2022 at 11:02 am)Ahriman Wrote: Fun fact, everyone is indoctrinated, if not by one source of indoctrination then another, atheists reject religious indoctrination but embrace scientific indoctrination, often to the point of accepting scientism, and/or becoming left wing nut jobs.
You are laughably ignorant, yet you seem to believe you are not.
The thing you can't seem to get through to that walnut you call a brain, is that science can demonstrate it's accuracy and reliability to describe reality.
Religions, not so much...
(January 21, 2022 at 1:27 pm)Ahriman Wrote: I really have to wonder why some people mentally shirk religion in favor of atheism.
Because the existence of any god has not been demonstrated.
As soon as someone is able to meet their burden of proof to demonstrate that at least one god exists, I will no longer be an atheist.
For most atheists, their atheism is not a dogmatic position, it is a provisional position.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
