(July 4, 2012 at 12:23 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: Well, think of it. Pragmatism says that the only beliefs that really matter are the ones that influence your actions, and that conversely your actions determine what your beliefs are. So a Pragmatist doesn't care about beliefs that don't influence actions. Thus, there is no Pragmatist distinction between two people who act in precisely the same manner in the same circumstances.
Would a person who had never heard of a concept act in a similar manner to a man who has heard of a concept, yet dismisses it for lack of evidence?
Because if that is the case, then your argument that, in effect, those that live life as if there were no God actively believe there to be no God is a non sequitur.
Quote:...your actions determine what your beliefs are.
What does lack of action mean? Did you read what would happen to you if you don't make your daily three post offereings to satiate my dragon? I feel sorry for you, dude. And your brain.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
