(October 11, 2014 at 12:28 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: There is a big difference between a belief and factual information.
You don't need to have facts to believe in something, for instance I believe my chair will not break, I haven't got any factual information to prove it but it doesn't make my belief any more dis proven or proven.
But you DO have facts that your chair won't break under you - the reasonable expectation that you've sat in it hundreds of times without it breaking.
If you go through life expecting that your beliefs don't need to line up with facts and experience, then you open yourself up to believing any far-fetched, idiotic proposition that comes your way. Before you know it, you'll find yourself believing that snakes trick people into eating apples, that some mythic being inscribes laws on stone tablets, that Jewish carpenters walk on water...
Never mind.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson