(July 31, 2010 at 12:59 pm)superstarr Wrote: Then how can anyone not in the same religion as others, deny an existance of any other God or Gods from other religions? I'm not saying that any of them are real, but religious people claim that faith (or a form of faith) is truly what tells them that there is a sort of a God or Gods regardless of evidence. It's probably the matter of simply choosing which one to follow, but then how would you know that you've got the right choice? I don't think it'll matter because they all probably have the same reasons.
Yeah, it's basically because the Bible and preachers tell them that the billions of people practicing Islam and Judaism and Hinduism are wrong and the other religions (to a lesser extent Hinduism, I believe) tell their believers the same thing. That applies to your run-of-the-mill-just-because-my-parents-are-believers-and-I-haven't-had-an-independent-thought-in-my-life sort of theists. The smarter believers (if there are degrees) tend to use a cumulative sort of reasoning (mostly fallacious) that says that <i>one</i> specific argument doesn't carry the day but the accumulation of these very badly reasoned arguments creates a stronger case. I don't believe many of them entertain the question of "How do you know you've made the right choice?" because of the utter certainty of <i>their</i> choice. Many terrible crusades, witch hunts, slave beatings and bloodlettings in the name of religion later ...
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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