(May 17, 2025 at 6:21 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Let's not be hasty, there's still credo quia absurdum. Christians often find themselves either believing or compelled to believe in things that don't make sense to them. Magic book even tells them that, in these moments, leaning on their own understanding would be a mistake. Even more fundamentally, no believer in a miraculous god actually thinks that the miraculous things are in the realm of our mundane possibilities. They are impossible, they are paradoxical, and that is exactly what makes them miraculous and mysterious.The problem that bothers here, is one could use credo quia absurdum to literally believe anything, what would be one's criteria for all the absurd ideas one must inevitably discard? It would be more honest to say I believe X because I want to, and admit it is an entirely subjective belief. This idea that the world makes sense through the lens of belief, whilst partially true, does not mean individual beliefs are objectively true.
Of course one can deny any objective fact, and use those denials to believe anything one wished, for example the absurdity of trying to make sound rational arguments, when all the time it is to deny that the earth is 4.543 billion years old, and pretend it is a few thousand years old, was in fact created millennia after humans first evolved.
