RE: Why is religion so repugnant to some people
January 12, 2015 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 4:58 pm by Violet.)
(January 12, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Bu the cake is truth, right?
It's gotta be. It's my unbirthday, after all!
Oh dear, I've walked into the frying pan that is expressing my opinion where there be people with strong opinions... xD I should have better listened to Charlie...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxoesda-QK0
(January 12, 2015 at 4:26 pm)robvalue Wrote: I propose the word "faith" have its definition changed to be solely "belief without evidence". Then we can all easily distinguish between faith and confidence. And we can hit theists over the head with said dictionary every time they pull the false equivocation (surveys show up to 13 times a day in extreme cases).
Perhaps... but very few people believe anything without evidence... infact, people (especially those 'blinded by reason'), will fight tooth and nail to defend what they believe in absolutely... Religion serves only as a vehicle for this, and it is an effective brainwashing and control mechanic. But those blinded by their justifications can be spoken down, they can still learn:
Many of these smart people have to first realize that there is no justification that can for faith stand... that the faith to move mountains is one of zealotry, and not one that can possibly be rationalized. That's the key negative feature really being spoken to here: not that one believes whatever they might like to... but that *nothing will remove them from that belief.
We have a word for a 'strong belief that cannot be reasoned with'... Zealotry. Fanaticism.
I would say 'give them an enemy.... they want an enemy', but that's because I'm a bloodthirsty monster. Disarming them should do well enough... but you'll probably have to kill them first.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
