(May 11, 2025 at 3:38 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(May 11, 2025 at 1:29 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Right; and the majority of Christians don't hold any strong beliefs about what God is beyond his role as creator. In much the same way that the majority of people don't have any beliefs about the workings of human perception, they just know they have eyes and that they see. And any belief they did have is guaranteed to be wrong. You have to go to experts who have at least attempted to come up with reasonable answers to the question.
I remember meeting a Christian couple here in Hiroshima -- he was from Hiroshima and she was from Nagasaki. They were both doctors who had spent the majority of their careers doing charity work. He was a founding member of an anti-nuke organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize.
I asked them about their theological beliefs and they said they had never thought about it. It was the least important part of Christianity in their eyes.
So I suspect this is true of the majority. And it's the reason why trying to dissuade them from Christianity by asking for objective evidence of a prime mover -- or something like that -- is a niche hobby for people on line, but doesn't make much difference in their lives.
Wow - TWO people who are a couple...which sort of makes you think that they had things in common...like beliefs.
I am atheist and so are two of my kids and one grandchild. That makes sense as that's how they were raised.
Good grief, I found out a couple nights ago that my next door neighbor is agnostic/nihilistic....the five of us plan to take over the world since we are in the majority. /s
Yer an idiot of epic proportions.
If you said the sky was blue and grass was green I wouldn't take your word for it regardless of what book you reference.
I'm your huckleberry.
