(April 28, 2015 at 3:38 am)robvalue Wrote: It is the hardest thing to know: what do theists believe, and what do they just say they believe? I'd agree that such a reaction indicates at least scepticism in the concept of hell. Or else they are the world's best actors!
Dan Dennett in breaking the spell advances a kind of Schroedingers Cat view of religion: many believers have only a diffuse rational picture of what they believe, and only once you ask will they try to really define and formulate it, but what you then get is not really what made them tick as members of the faith all that time. He used that for aboriginal religions I think, but it seems to apply to people in western society I know as well.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
