(July 10, 2013 at 5:14 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The pitfall is that it ceases to be a search for the truth and merely becomes an extension of what you already believed in the first place.
And then they defend that with the unfalsifiable claim that a magic ghost guided them to the truth.
I very much agree. But until we outgrow our need as a people to believe in religions this is going to continue. And the true believers will do just as you say and claim that God guided them to the truth.
Myself, I was Catholic for a time only because I was raised that way. Like most people I went with it for no other reason. But from when I was just a little kid there were things I could never accept. Original Sin was the first one. I just could not accept that idea. I was like "But I just got here! How could I have done anything yet?" I refused to accept the notion, I did not care what the church said was true. By the time I was old enough to vote there was a whole laundry list of things that did not set well with me and that I rejected. I was far from alone in the pews with picking and choosing. Even my Sunday school teacher sister does it, and she's as religious as they get.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
