(April 30, 2014 at 11:39 am)fr0d0 Wrote: No point presenting the opposing view as you'd only deny it.
So you think a herd mentality is a good thing? It certainly had evolutionary advantages.
A point of view about what is a factual matter does not in itself establish the fact. If a point of view is not based on facts, or ignore highly salient facts, it will not be denied, it will simply be ignored as a nonproductive a waste of time.
It is very christian to argue so long as it is a christain point of view, it ought to have equal weight and force as material fact. They never grant the same to buddhists, islam, or animist points of view.
Whether herd mentality had evolutionary advantages is also irrelevent. We are talking about whether herd mentality is of benefit or detriment in the practice of establishing facts and estimating probabilities.
But It is also very christian to inject a historic, incidental, or tangential benefit that christianity might dubiously lay claim to in the past as a rationale for perpetuating christianity in a world where such benefits are overwhelmingly overshadowed by direct harm it is doing now and most likely will do in the future. But again christians would not extend the same benefit for the reviled brotherns of nominally different creeds.
