RE: Why your exsistence is more worthless than you previousy thought it was.
February 11, 2014 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2014 at 10:50 am by Ryantology.)
(February 11, 2014 at 8:32 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: It isn't a delusion if there's a good chance it might actually be true if there are good reasons to believe it. It's still a faith if you can't be factually certain but you can't be factually certain that atheism is true either. You have a belief you have based on what you consider to be good reasons/arguments, what you feel to be true and whatever.
The trouble is, you don't actually have any good reasons to believe what you believe, nor any good arguments to support your belief. Every justification for every theist claim I've ever encountered can be easily whittled down to "I believe it because I want it to be true".
I believe what is true, or what has been shown to be likely. Even if I can't completely rule out certain things as possibilities, I can rule out certain things as being of exceptionally low probability. If there is no actual need for a creator, and no creator ever makes himself known to anybody in any measurable way, we're not left with any reason to think of this creator as anything but fictional, even if we liked the idea of that creator and wanted it to be true. It is at this point where belief becomes a choice based upon wish fulfillment.
But seriously, don't assume that your beliefs and your faith deserve equal recognition just because we have our own measures of belief or faith. You don't base your beliefs on anything but your own desires and your faith in them is entirely driven by self-interest. We tailor our expectations to match reality. You struggle to force reality to confirm your expectations. As the last 500 years has so artfully demonstrated, the more people know, the more difficult your job gets.
