(July 18, 2012 at 3:12 pm)Epimethean Wrote: None of your reasoning is rational.
These are factors that motivate me to want to believe.
However, ultimately, I don't feel they are the reason why I believe, although I understand if you guys believe these are the very reasons I do believe ( I believe only because I want to). I believe that I believe in God is due to properly basic knowledge that I am holding on to. But what motivates me to want to hold on to this knowledge from my perspective, it's not simply because I feel it's knowledge, but these factors I mention.
At the same time, there is pressure from the intellectual and scientific community, that no such knowledge exists, and that belief in God is for the weak and feeble minded.
Since the belief is coupled with love towards the entity, it does feel emotional, much like people feel emotion over moral issues.
