(July 17, 2012 at 8:54 am)Brian37 Wrote: Sure you can. It is called "willful ignorance". In other words despite what is right in front of your face you still believe in what is not true. Humans do that all the time, even outside the issue of religion.
If you know anyone who has been cheated on(hate that term, but that is a different story) you may have been aware that they have been told, and been shown evidence of the affair, but the person says to themselves "There is no way they could do that, I don't believe you".
In simple terms the word is "denial".
There is a difference between "unwittingly dishonest," which, as Skepsis has pointed out is an oxymoron and being "willfully ignorant." The former makes no sense to the consciousness whereas the latter is a deliberately cultivated perspective.
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