RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 12:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2012 at 12:49 am by Cato.)
(November 29, 2012 at 11:14 pm)Polaris Wrote: There is no definitive correlation between logical thinking and atheism.Nor is there correlation between logic and theism. What's your point here? Logic is a tool. What's the difference between definitive correlation and correlation. Does the 'definitive' qualifier invoke an idea of a correlation slope > 1? You can use the tool of logic all you want, but if a premise of your logic is false, your conclusion is baseless. There's still the mantra that correlation doesn't mean causation.
Quote:Trying to appeal to reason is not a path to disbelief so much as an excuse for not believing. It's like saying I don't believe and now I will come up with anything I can (much of it actually violates academia) to prove I am right in my convictions.....it's what the religious people do to justify their beliefs.Now you throw reason out the door. Reason is more powerful than logic. It's 'reason' that is employed to conclude that a result of perfect logic is incorrect if the premise is untrue. You dismiss the powerful combination of reason and logic because they don't result in your indocrinated absolute truths.
Quote:One simply does not believe usually because they have not seen/felt any evidence. I don't believe in vampires, but I am not going to go around wasting my time trying to disprove their existence.
Why not? Bram Stoker gave as much compelling evidence for the existence of vampires as the assumed authors of the bible gave for your god. Confirmation bias is a bitch. You have no more evidence for the actual existence of your god (and son) than Stoker did for his vampires.
You can believe whatever bullshit you want. I really don't care. I start to care when you use your unsubstantiated beliefs to influence legislation that limits my liberty based on the sensibilities of your particular ancient tribal beliefs.
