RE: Your perception of theists
July 5, 2015 at 11:24 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 12:56 am by Pyrrho.)
(July 5, 2015 at 9:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: When you learn that a particular person is a theist, does that fact alone make you think any less of them? Perhaps less intelligent, or less rational, or less educated, or less good, etc?
If so, how and why?
Thanks!
I'll answer your questions with questions:
When you learn that a particular person believes in leprechauns, does that fact alone make you think any less of them? Perhaps less intelligent, or less rational, or less educated, or less good, etc?
If so, how and why?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.