(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.
Not being able to prove something wrong can be frustrating...but why go to that extreme? The burden of proof is on them to prove it.
But yes, to the former comment. This is the same reason why people try to justify their beliefs with the Constitution of the United States, because they think it already says what they're thinking, and they'll bend it any which way to prove it. Definitely a pitfall.
(July 10, 2013 at 5:28 pm)Raven Wrote: 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.
It was my wife's cherry picking that got her out of Catholicism. It wasn't about OS, but about Homosexuality and the church's position on it.
