(March 24, 2015 at 11:07 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote: That's an extreme version of fideism. Weaker version would just say that it' okay to believe something even if you don't have good evidence for it so long as there is no good evidence against it. It's going beyond evidence and not counter to it. Really you could have fideistic nontheists. I'm sympathetic towards such views; however, we as humans have a bad habit of getting emotionally attached to the first view we jump to and fight to not let go; therefore, the value of suspending judgement can't be ignored.
You make me think of William Kingdon Clifford:
http://ajburger.homestead.com/ethics.html
It isn't okay to believe things without evidence. It is, in fact, the very definition of "prejudice," judging things before one has the evidence regarding the issue.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
