RE: Has atheism made you different?
April 22, 2013 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2013 at 6:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 22, 2013 at 6:21 pm)Dawud Wrote: I think people believing that there is no bridge across a wide gap can lead people to not walk as if there is a bridge.
Which would be a salient observation, if the best we could muster about the status of a bridge over a gap were belief - but since it isn't - it is not. I don't have to have any belief regarding bridges, they're either there or they're not and knowledge of this will likely lead me to avoid putting one foot out over the cliff.
On the other hand, if someone truly believed the bridge was there when it was not and took that step.......
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