Religious people are relying on false reasoning within their minds.
"I believed in Jesus, it felt great, that's proof of Jesus"
"I believed in Jesus, it changed my life so drastically in a positive way, that's proof of Jesus".
"I like the feeling I get reading these words, it must be the holy spirit making me know it's true"
"I don't want to go to hell, this religion promises I won't go there if I believe, therefore I must believe".
etc...
It's all anecdotal experience that is based on false reasoning that they don't recognize and will laugh at if they ever realize the reasoning they are employing.
Religions are not believed in a properly basic manner.
Emotion does drive belief in religion, but it's all relied on false reasoning, that is said to be a personal experience, but is really a false inference.
The fear of Allah Muslims feel reading Quran, the constant praise of belief, the honor they get being praised, all that plays into their emotions, and they infer, "I don't want to be blind, deaf, and dumb, I want to be those whom ponder and see and believe and are praised, because that's the honorable way, therefore I believe".
Of course if they ever recognize how Quran strengthens their faith by constant appeal to emotion like that, they will feel embarrassed and say they never employ such reasoning, but it's a hidden reasoning they go through.
But is belief in praise and morality similar? No. Be it true or the nihilist are right, it's not inferred. We are inclined to take it as a granted for sure thing from early as children.
Now I would say praise and morality plays in the lives of children and adults and all humans, and as such, it's belief is universal, even if we disagree on the details.
But I want you to honestly distinguish belief in praise that is properly basic, from belief in ultimate source of praise that is ultimately praiseworthy, and tell me why it's rational to believe in praise, but not rational to believe in ultimate source of praise.
At the end, it's anecdotal. You feel the drive to believe in praise, the need of it, and hence hold on to the knowledge of praise. Without that emotional drive, there would be no clinging of the soul of that knowledge.
When we study for mathematics, we usually need a test, to practice our knowledge, and then apply it. If there is no test, no exam, we feel less inclined to learn and we easily forget.
Humans however tend to feel inclined to believe in God for various reasons. Now both Atheists and Theists agree upon that. The only question is the soul clinging to a knowledge or a delusion?
But if it's a delusion, simply because it's emotionally driven, than belief in praise would be baseless, because it's not only emotionally driven, but emotion is a property of every instance of belief in praise. You feel every time you are praised yourself, a sense of love towards the self. That love is part of the belief.
"I believed in Jesus, it felt great, that's proof of Jesus"
"I believed in Jesus, it changed my life so drastically in a positive way, that's proof of Jesus".
"I like the feeling I get reading these words, it must be the holy spirit making me know it's true"
"I don't want to go to hell, this religion promises I won't go there if I believe, therefore I must believe".
etc...
It's all anecdotal experience that is based on false reasoning that they don't recognize and will laugh at if they ever realize the reasoning they are employing.
Religions are not believed in a properly basic manner.
Emotion does drive belief in religion, but it's all relied on false reasoning, that is said to be a personal experience, but is really a false inference.
The fear of Allah Muslims feel reading Quran, the constant praise of belief, the honor they get being praised, all that plays into their emotions, and they infer, "I don't want to be blind, deaf, and dumb, I want to be those whom ponder and see and believe and are praised, because that's the honorable way, therefore I believe".
Of course if they ever recognize how Quran strengthens their faith by constant appeal to emotion like that, they will feel embarrassed and say they never employ such reasoning, but it's a hidden reasoning they go through.
But is belief in praise and morality similar? No. Be it true or the nihilist are right, it's not inferred. We are inclined to take it as a granted for sure thing from early as children.
Now I would say praise and morality plays in the lives of children and adults and all humans, and as such, it's belief is universal, even if we disagree on the details.
But I want you to honestly distinguish belief in praise that is properly basic, from belief in ultimate source of praise that is ultimately praiseworthy, and tell me why it's rational to believe in praise, but not rational to believe in ultimate source of praise.
At the end, it's anecdotal. You feel the drive to believe in praise, the need of it, and hence hold on to the knowledge of praise. Without that emotional drive, there would be no clinging of the soul of that knowledge.
When we study for mathematics, we usually need a test, to practice our knowledge, and then apply it. If there is no test, no exam, we feel less inclined to learn and we easily forget.
Humans however tend to feel inclined to believe in God for various reasons. Now both Atheists and Theists agree upon that. The only question is the soul clinging to a knowledge or a delusion?
But if it's a delusion, simply because it's emotionally driven, than belief in praise would be baseless, because it's not only emotionally driven, but emotion is a property of every instance of belief in praise. You feel every time you are praised yourself, a sense of love towards the self. That love is part of the belief.
