I'm pretty comfortable assigning greater confidence to truth claims that are testable in principle, even greater to those that are testable in practice, and have been tested. I can't think of any reason I'd assign equivalent or greater confidence to whatever truth claims a person might have in mind that are untestable in principle and in practice.
I think you might be confusing belief and worship. I don't really choose what I do or don't believe. You probably don't either. I do choose what I'm willing to worship. Apologists often fall down here, wasting their time with the first thing when what they really want is the second - even though all of their work would still be ahead of them if they ever managed to establish that first thing. If it were me, I'd go about it the other way.
OFC, I don't think a thing has to be real for people to decide it's worthy, often enough the things we would deem most worthy are the things that have yet to escape into the real world.
I think you might be confusing belief and worship. I don't really choose what I do or don't believe. You probably don't either. I do choose what I'm willing to worship. Apologists often fall down here, wasting their time with the first thing when what they really want is the second - even though all of their work would still be ahead of them if they ever managed to establish that first thing. If it were me, I'd go about it the other way.
OFC, I don't think a thing has to be real for people to decide it's worthy, often enough the things we would deem most worthy are the things that have yet to escape into the real world.
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