RE: Logic tells me God doesn't exist but my heart says otherwise.
September 28, 2014 at 10:36 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2014 at 10:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't know that it does change, for some. What are you referring to though, the change from a faith based upon what your parents told you to a strongly internalized faith? Would seem to be an issue of selective bias and a strong urge to confirm previously held principles (and support all things built atop those principles as a foundation).
We often see people asking us questions like "Why would an atheist act in a moral way". For these people, morality has been built atop a divine foundation - and the fear or suspicion seems to be that if the foundation were to fall then so too would morality. Confirming their faith is, in effect, confirming their morality- which is clearly important to them. That's a powerful impetus to interpret just about everything as confirmation.
Or, are you wondering why we no longer refer to the words of our parents as absolute truth, that we seek out other means of determination? I think that we eventually realize that our parents are human beings, like ourselves, that their opinions and positions are just as subject to being inaccurate or inadequate as our own. They help us to reach this realization, of course......and it isn't as though they could do anything else with regards to that matter (they are human beings, like ourselves, after all).
We often see people asking us questions like "Why would an atheist act in a moral way". For these people, morality has been built atop a divine foundation - and the fear or suspicion seems to be that if the foundation were to fall then so too would morality. Confirming their faith is, in effect, confirming their morality- which is clearly important to them. That's a powerful impetus to interpret just about everything as confirmation.
Or, are you wondering why we no longer refer to the words of our parents as absolute truth, that we seek out other means of determination? I think that we eventually realize that our parents are human beings, like ourselves, that their opinions and positions are just as subject to being inaccurate or inadequate as our own. They help us to reach this realization, of course......and it isn't as though they could do anything else with regards to that matter (they are human beings, like ourselves, after all).
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