(March 14, 2013 at 2:29 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Nietzsche talks about this kinda, he says that Christian (slave) morality involves the belief that good and evil are a choice. This is opposed to master morality, which involves the belief that good and bad are innate and that you are born one way or another. To Christians, belief and nonbelief are a choice, similar if not part of the choice between good and evil. My mother also thinks this way, although she is not a believer (she was, however, raised with religion). Personally, I do not feel I ever had a choice to believe or not believe, I simply could not believe no matter how hard I tried.
I feel the same way. I have said that if you put a million dollars in front of me and asked me to believe in something like god, or for that matter, Santa Claus, your million dollars would be safe (assuming I did not lie about it). I cannot throw a switch and make myself believe.
