(March 2, 2012 at 1:08 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You don't have to do any such thing. If you committed yourself to your own faith out of laziness or incuriousness, well, what can be said?
Fair enough, many people do not bother to care or examine their beliefs. And for most of those it doesn't really affect their lives that much anyway. Self-righteous people remain self-righteous regardless of whether they are atheists or theists.
Nobody has to probe their beliefs, but I think they should. But committing to a faith does not necessarily mean holding beliefs irrationally against all evidence.
Try thinking of it this way. When you actively pursue a field of knowledge you commit yourself to study in the hope that it will payoff in the end. You temporarily accept the veracity of some claims until you can verify them for yourself. You believe that religion is a dead end. As for me I believe the theology can augment and coexist with general metaphysics.
But in the meantime we can struggle with the big issues together.
