Well, I agree with all you stated. I was just pointing to perhaps what is common fallacy when we judge other people's beliefs, we maybe putting them in our shoes and not realizing, it's from the perception of our own experience.
What I mean by "future self", is that you see yourself given your knowledge and experience, not able to succumb to a certain belief, given what ye know. For example, given what you believe now and the knowledge and experience you have now, you don't see yourself in the future believing "hell" to be morally alright regarding atheists. Moreover, you would find yourself "evil" where you to do that, given what you know and believe, and have experienced.
But you don't find necessarily that a person who believes Atheists go to hell is evil. But if he should see hell as you see it (universal perception), you should not be able to respect him, given that you can't respect a future understanding of yourself accepting it. Therefore, I'm saying it would be a contradiction, to talk of beliefs as evil in a universal perception way, but all we can really do, is explain why it seems evil or ugly for you to accept, given your knowledge and experience, while it's not necessarily evil for others to believe, given their limited experience (although it maybe evil for them to accept given their experience).
This is something no one really does. Something I haven't done either. But something I just realized now that I should do.
What I mean by "future self", is that you see yourself given your knowledge and experience, not able to succumb to a certain belief, given what ye know. For example, given what you believe now and the knowledge and experience you have now, you don't see yourself in the future believing "hell" to be morally alright regarding atheists. Moreover, you would find yourself "evil" where you to do that, given what you know and believe, and have experienced.
But you don't find necessarily that a person who believes Atheists go to hell is evil. But if he should see hell as you see it (universal perception), you should not be able to respect him, given that you can't respect a future understanding of yourself accepting it. Therefore, I'm saying it would be a contradiction, to talk of beliefs as evil in a universal perception way, but all we can really do, is explain why it seems evil or ugly for you to accept, given your knowledge and experience, while it's not necessarily evil for others to believe, given their limited experience (although it maybe evil for them to accept given their experience).
This is something no one really does. Something I haven't done either. But something I just realized now that I should do.
