(April 15, 2015 at 2:07 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: As I said before - in that case every single thing I - or anyone - has ever known, or even just heard in passing is a belief. Unless you can provide me with any example of something that's not a belief - it's just semantics. Which is fine, except it doesn't mean anything.
And you still haven't addressed the case of someone completely ignorant of the concept of religion or god.
Actually, very little is truly known, and most of our knowledge rests upon philosophical assumptions. There's a saying that proof is only for math and alcohol, and even math rests upon several assumptions we can't actually prove beyond the fact that it correlates with reality.
As for case of someone completely ignorant of religion, that would be lacking a belief, but the moment you've evaluated the claim for god, you've formed a belief
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
