(July 7, 2015 at 3:27 pm)robvalue Wrote: That's the thing. Very often, the scepticism is there. All you have to do is wave around a different holy book and suddenly there's questions, demands for evidence, "standards"...
Just not for their own religion. That's how it goes.
Yes, which shows a lack of consistency in the application of their own standards, which shows them to be irrational, about that one thing at least.
If you know that a person is irrational about at least one thing, and that is all you know about the person, does that affect your opinion of the person? Well, it should.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.