Stories

[The Reality Salesman01]

He's doing nothing more than he accuses the original story teller of doing, maybe worse. The original story teller was telling a story from a specific belief and pointing to a specific idea.

GC

Your observation is exactly right. It's also incomplete. I do get the feeling that you missed the end. If you did watch it all, then it appears that you were unable to comprehend what the video was explaining. It demonstrated that stories like this are only effective in reinforcing beliefs that people already think are true. The original story teller was telling the story with a belief in his mind already, you got that part right (it wasn't a subtle implication). I don't think you're pretending not to know that stories like this are used all the time as arguments in support of religious beliefs as an attempt to rationalize them to others who say it's irrational. It occurred to me that you may not have understood any of it. The story being told was an attempt to correlate the skeptical mice with Atheists and how they are all foolish for criticizing the mice who believed that there was a person responsible for making the music (Monotheists with regards to God and all creation). If you didn't understand what the story was implying, that would explain a lot about why it seems you don't understand any of the arguments put to you. Nevertheless, the video went on to explain that while this story does illustrate why a religious people find it compelling to further their belief. Anyone who thinks that a story like that is a sound justification for a God is simply blinded by the trees and unable to see the entirety of the forest. Do you understand that expression?...Google what it means to be unable to see the forest from the trees. I can't beleive its only just occurred to me that its not that you are just inept at drawing accurate conclusions by making rational inferences when it comes to arguments against religion, you very well may be entirely incompetent in that area. Ugh...what a waste of time.