(April 7, 2015 at 10:49 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Sometimes prior knowledge isn't actual knowledge. A very religous person accepts a variety of things as true, almost a priori, and from their point of view, an extraordinary claim is one that doesn't fit their religious beliefs. However, they also have ordinary prior knowledge, and a claim has to be consistent with that as well...unless it fits with their religious beliefs.(bold mine)
Exactly.
My mother does the same thing, TRS. She is fully on board with Jonah and the Whale being a literal story, then will lecture me about how I don't know the long term effects of a topical medication that I am taking. "It could cause cancer!" she says. There are no known side effects. It's fucking prescription anti-perspirant. I have hyperhidrosis.
Things like this, all the time.
That being said, there is the other side of the coin, too. I think I can be annoyingly skeptical, at times.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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