RE: Christians choose delusion
April 27, 2014 at 10:43 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2014 at 10:43 pm by Cyberman.)
Seeing is only one method by which to discern things. The mind can be measured electronically and experienced subjectively.
The heart is a muscle that pumps blood. You'd certainly notice if it wasn't there, though not for long.
Air is colourless, yet we can feel it on our skin, see its effects, measure it instrumentally. Even breathe it, in a pinch.
The soul, like demons, cannot be detected by any means. Thus it would be irrational to leap to the belief that they are there. What you are doing, knowingly or not, is making a gross fallacy of equivocation - just as if I were to say "cats have four legs and a tail. My dog has four legs and a tail; therefore my dog is a cat".
The heart is a muscle that pumps blood. You'd certainly notice if it wasn't there, though not for long.
Air is colourless, yet we can feel it on our skin, see its effects, measure it instrumentally. Even breathe it, in a pinch.
The soul, like demons, cannot be detected by any means. Thus it would be irrational to leap to the belief that they are there. What you are doing, knowingly or not, is making a gross fallacy of equivocation - just as if I were to say "cats have four legs and a tail. My dog has four legs and a tail; therefore my dog is a cat".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
