RE: Please correct me where I am wrong
May 21, 2015 at 8:56 am
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 8:58 am by Aractus.)
(May 19, 2015 at 4:45 pm)nicanica123 Wrote: I started surfing on this website to help me try and come to a logical well reasoned conclusion to what I truly believe. I don't believe that this will be either an easy, or a short process. However, one thing that has been frustrating is that it seems like some on this forum don't believe that they're positions could be muddled by cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and logical fallacies. The most common fallacies that I have noticed, is the red herring and the straw man. Or even posters that are completely ignorant of what I believe/believed as a JW and asserting conclusions based off their ignorance. So I ask, are atheist immune to common human fallacies and emotional roadblocks? Or is religion and god the one main cause of such things? Because from what I am concluding, belief in god and the supernatural seems to be a byproduct of human emotions not the cause
As I've mentioned 1,000 times over, belief and participation in a religion does far more good in a person's life than harm; generally speaking. There are exceptions, for instance if you're a Scientologist and you stop taking your schizophrenia medication because you "don't believe in psychiatry". On average though you will live longer, be healthier and happier if you are participating in a religion. It's just one of those things - it holds true. Just like say the health effect of the "Social Gradient" holds true even when the "poor" in one country are financially/materially "wealthy" when compared to another. So when you take that into account along with the general principles of evolution and other scientific patterns (not chaos I think we're beyond chaos theory); which describe a system - say society - that is geared towards continual improvements over the long term. So you could make predictions today based on this - and people have. People have predicted for instance when they think more than 50% of the world's countries will have legalised same-sex marriage and those predictions if I'm not mistaken go all the way back to the 1980's. So as I mentioned when you take that into account, and you realise that overall religion has a health benefit for its participants then you would expect it to grow organically just because of that one reason.
The atheist problem is that we're right, but, it's not necessarily what's best for us.
PS: do excuse me for checking whether it's possible to give myself Kudos or not.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
