RE: Terrorist attack in France, Lyon
June 27, 2015 at 2:40 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2015 at 2:41 pm by Napoléon.)
(June 27, 2015 at 2:35 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I don't think that is quite right. People believe a lot of stupid nonsense because they were indoctrinated into it. It is not that they all "willingly" believe anything; it is that people tend to believe what they are indoctrinated to believe.
When I was growing up, I was not given the option to be raised in a non-Christian home. And, of course, when one is an infant, one cannot decide such things anyway, even if we made some pretense and let children point to pictures of people and have them raised by whoever they pointed to.
Belief is not decided by pure act of will. You could probably not believe in god no matter how hard you tried. Likewise, many people believe in god, without it being a choice or act of will.
I disagree.
Obviously not everyone has the chance to realise their brand of indoctrination is false. But that's not what I said.
I stand by what I stated. However you presumably made a conscious decision to assess your own belief, at some point as you got older. A lot of people don't want to do this and are willfully ignorant.
Besides. Your argument is flawed merely for the fact that not everyone was or is indoctrinated.
