How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Chri...
February 14, 2014 at 1:29 pm
"A belief is an acceptance that something is true" is really over-simplifying. Belief ranges from well-supported by empirical data, to reasonable assumptions, to strongly held beliefs despite a lack of evidence, or a volume of evidence against.
Believing something has no bearing on the veracity of something. People can believe just about anything, justify it internally, where to the external world, the belief is irrational.
This becomes a problem when there are networks of people who want to believe the same wildly inaccurate thing -- for example, the earth is 6000 years old -- and reassure eachother their beliefs are valid and well-supported, while trying to influence public policy for the rest of us.
Or, to put it another way:
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(Taken from another thread)
Believing something has no bearing on the veracity of something. People can believe just about anything, justify it internally, where to the external world, the belief is irrational.
This becomes a problem when there are networks of people who want to believe the same wildly inaccurate thing -- for example, the earth is 6000 years old -- and reassure eachother their beliefs are valid and well-supported, while trying to influence public policy for the rest of us.
Or, to put it another way:
(Taken from another thread)
