RE: I have an honest question for theists.
July 5, 2012 at 2:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2012 at 2:37 pm by Mystic.)
(July 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(July 5, 2012 at 1:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I would live as if he was real.
(July 5, 2012 at 1:25 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Yup +1
Please let us know what this would look like. How would you live your life as if 'he' was real?
Are you only referring to your ethics and how you would live in society and how you'd treat other people?
Or are you saying that you'd continue to obey the dictates of the religious text and perform whatever religious rituals the god you previously believed existed required?
In other words, if you previously believed that premarital sex or eating pork were against your god's laws, and that is the reason you did not partake of either, would you now partake of them? If you previously voted against allowing gay marriage based on Biblical laws, would you change the way you vote?
Well I don't have a religion.
If free-will were to be proven it doesn't exist, I would live life as if free-will exists. Why? Because living life as free-will doesn't exist, will make me feel I have no control over my life and every decision will be determined, and there will be no honour in any of our actions, because it's all set and determined. So if free-will were proven to me be false and a delusion, I would ignore the evidence.
Living as if God exists, even in face of evidence otherwise, to me would believing that I have a higher purpose, and I'm not here to just enjoy life, but a build a high character. I would live as if this is my purpose, even in face of evidence otherwise.
I don't believe in any religion. But as for morality goes, believing in God, gives morality the highest infinite authority. The "should" do, is to absolute ultimate degree.
I will life my life as if morality has a metaphysical existence. I would live life as if I am soul that will exist forever and ever. Why? The same reason I would if there was solid evidence of free-will being illusion.
To me ascending towards God is a high goal. I would live towards that goal, no matter what evidence is presented.
I would act towards ascension and metaphysical existence, no matter the evidence for a similar reason as to why I would act as if free-will exists, no matter what the evidence.