RE: When believing false things is comforting
September 23, 2019 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2019 at 5:48 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 22, 2019 at 8:50 pm)Belaqua Wrote: My experience is that it is very much NOT true, of either atheists or religious people.
Commitment to an ideological position nearly always takes precedence.
That depends on the degree of kinship they feel to those purposes which are better served by discovery of facts than by contingent expediency.
Basically, their fundamental honesty.
Theism is an outgrowth of the privileging of contingent expediency over discovery of facts, and depends on wide spread lack of fundamental honesty to survive.
However, atheism can certainly also serve contingent expediency and be embraced by the fundamentally dishonest.
But to draw equivalence between what can be used by the dishonest with what is dishonesty itself is, how shall we put it, as unscrupulously dishonest as religion itself.
