Does it count as the dumbest argument I have ever heard that inevitably the real reason why anybody seems to think it MIGHT be true that God exists is because they feel a need (in my opinion, the degree to which they feel this need is irrelevant for the stupidity of the argument) for the emotional comfort that possibility gives them?
Because goddamn, that is not a RATIONAL position, and if in any way on any level know that the reasons for you believe in is a thing that is not all rational or logically sound, why then would you maintain that you believe it to be true, much less even possibly continue fully believing it is true? Is it even possible to fully believe a thing is true while knowing it is not rational or logically sound, or are people just lying to themselves and everyone else? I honestly don't know. I think this is the thing I fundamentally just cannot understand about religious belief, having never believed in anything religious myself. And I think the very fact that I cannot comprehend this thing is why I have never had any religious belief whatsoever.
And let me just add, that this thing seems to me to be so monumentally STUPID, it may just be the thing that is fundamentally stupid about the existence of religious belief.
Because goddamn, that is not a RATIONAL position, and if in any way on any level know that the reasons for you believe in is a thing that is not all rational or logically sound, why then would you maintain that you believe it to be true, much less even possibly continue fully believing it is true? Is it even possible to fully believe a thing is true while knowing it is not rational or logically sound, or are people just lying to themselves and everyone else? I honestly don't know. I think this is the thing I fundamentally just cannot understand about religious belief, having never believed in anything religious myself. And I think the very fact that I cannot comprehend this thing is why I have never had any religious belief whatsoever.
And let me just add, that this thing seems to me to be so monumentally STUPID, it may just be the thing that is fundamentally stupid about the existence of religious belief.
