Just getting into this thread and sorry in advance if I repeat a point already made.
I just find it curious you use the metaphor for the cup. This analogy underscores how the beginning of wisdom is the phrase "I don't know". It is only when you admit ignorance that you can learn. Believing you already know "The Truth" closes you off to learning how your understanding of the truth may be wrong.
So between the believer and the non-believer, who has the full cup?
Saying "I don't know" is counter-intuitive. We are wired to fear the unknown. We prefer a bad answer or even a made up answer to none at all. Life presents us with uncertainty and death is entirely unknown. Religion offers easy answers. Hence its popularity.
It is the non-believer who rejects these easy answers and admits what is unknown. We are the ones with the empty cups. What evidence do you offer for our consideration?
I just find it curious you use the metaphor for the cup. This analogy underscores how the beginning of wisdom is the phrase "I don't know". It is only when you admit ignorance that you can learn. Believing you already know "The Truth" closes you off to learning how your understanding of the truth may be wrong.
So between the believer and the non-believer, who has the full cup?
Saying "I don't know" is counter-intuitive. We are wired to fear the unknown. We prefer a bad answer or even a made up answer to none at all. Life presents us with uncertainty and death is entirely unknown. Religion offers easy answers. Hence its popularity.
It is the non-believer who rejects these easy answers and admits what is unknown. We are the ones with the empty cups. What evidence do you offer for our consideration?
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
