(March 20, 2013 at 3:37 pm)ronedee Wrote: Isn't it easier just to believe? Really now....What harm is there to believe there is an Almighty God, who has a plan that we can't really understand and grasp fully yet?
Oh yes, it's very easy to believe. That's why you do it, at the most basic level.
It's much much easier to believe that a god made everything with space magic than it is to actually bother to investigate and find the real reasons why things work the way they do. It's much easier to just take the word of some ancient book on the origins of life than to care about studying it, and taxing your brain with the hard answers that are no less true for being challenging. It's such a pleasant shortcut to have your morality spelled out for you, to like what the book tells you to like and hate the people the book tells you to hate for no reason, than to bother with some introspection and internal honesty, in order to formulate a system of belief for which you have actual, personal justifications. It's the easiest thing in the world to be told what to do, rather than to think.
Just because something is easy, doesn't make it true, or right that one should follow it. You want us to convert, then you put in the intellectual legwork to prove it to us, and even if you do, don't expect us to just follow everything in the book on faith.
"Isn't it easier to just believe?" What a crock of shit...
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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