RE: Your perception of theists
July 6, 2015 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 11:54 am by Napoléon.)
(July 6, 2015 at 11:46 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm sorry, but I guess I just don't understand the conflict.
A person coming to their belief, or reinforcing their belief, through thoroughly informing themselves, is someone I admire.
^This is not mutually exclusive to not being able to have control over what you genuinely believe, regardless of how you came to that belief.
So you are saying you don't believe in free will then?
And I'm sorry but it is. You can't 'come' to your belief (or reinforce it) via scrutiny and assessment without some control over what you're assessing/scrutinizing. If you have control over what you're assessing, then you are by the laws of cause and effect, in some control over what you believe.