(July 6, 2012 at 2:08 pm)Taqiyya Mockingbird Wrote: The three statements are NOT A BELIEF SYSTEM. When are you going to drop thid stupid semantic prestidigitation?
Okay, what is a belief system then? How do you know that the set I gave is not a belief system?
To my understanding, beliefs are essentially collections of propositions (things that are either true, or false). So we say things like, "I believe in God" to mean "I believe that the sentence "God exists" is true." Or, "I believe that he is guilty" to mean "I believe that the sentence 'He is guilty' is true". And so on.
But it seems that you have a different idea of what a belief system is. Can you go into more detail about it?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”