RE: Religion, Atheism, and Deism -and the middle ground.
March 8, 2014 at 7:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2014 at 7:19 pm by Simon Moon.)
(March 8, 2014 at 6:59 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It can be said our sense of goodness, value, love of others, justice, is all spiritual.
This is EXACTLY what I meant in my original post when I said, "I have yet to hear a coherent definition for the term 'spiritual'."
Every person I ask to define the term, has given me different definitions. A word that has so broad a range of definition, is almost meaningless.
Quote:This is what I kind of wanted to imply by the title. It's ok to not believe in something, but why lump everything by the sentence that you need empirical type evidence for it, and if you don't get that evidence, then it's not worth believing.
Because, demonstrable, falsifiable evidence and reasoned argument is the single best method humanity has ever come up with to verify realty.
I care if my beliefs are true, or at least likely to be true. Believing something that doesn't meet that criteria, because I want it to be true, is gullibility.
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.
