(December 28, 2013 at 5:10 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Ok, so I was, in the shower, trying to examine exactly how much of Christianity I still believe in. It didn't take me very long. I'm now thinking it's dishonest to continue to describe myself as such.
I still plan to follow the same doctrines, but I can't honestly claim to believe that they are based on reality any more. Esquilax pushed me over the edge the bastard.
However I'm clearly not yet an atheist as I still like Christianity a lot! I just can't believe the basis of it.
Is there a name for that?
Contemporary analytic philosophers of mind generally use the term “belief” to refer to the attitude we have, roughly, whenever we take something to be the case or regard it as true.
Wiki defines it as - the psychological state in which an individual holds a conjecture or premise to be true.
If you hold the premise that at least one god exists to be true, you are not an atheist.
So, ask yourself if you currently hold the premise that at least one god exists to be true.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
