RE: Because the bible tells you so?
June 1, 2015 at 11:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2015 at 12:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 1, 2015 at 11:44 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: My point was just that emotion plays a role in our determining what's true or not. And when it comes to religious matters, the feeling may be the thing in our experience that we predominately have to go on. This is especially true when ritual thoughts and ritual actions play with the soup in our brain (raising your hands overhead, singing, chanting, touching things, all these have subtle but profound effects on that soup), ramping up the pleasurable feelings associated with the religious activity.
No argument on that count from me. If -all- we have to go on is that feeling, with regards to some specific thing like religion, then I would consider it prudent to withhold judgement on truth, personally. Emotional response isn't enough to decide the truth of anything other than how a person feels about something. The muslim feels that his religion is true, the christian his...if we actually relied on that then the word truth wouldn't mean much, eh?
My counterpoint, since we're simplifying, is that while the situation you've described -may be- the way our brains evolved to lead us in the direction of true propositions...it's no longer the only show in town. We've upped our game, wouldn't you agree?
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