RE: Now I'm Not a Believer
February 26, 2015 at 3:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 4:02 am by remagination.)
Thank you very much, everyone, for the warm welcomes and the encouragement. :-)
Yes! I think you hit the nail on the head!!!
The studies I have been doing lately in rigorous-logic (specifically what I have been doing in the area of Fallacy Recognition) have helped me reduce the degree to which emotions can *cloud* my logic ---- hence eliminating the emotionally-driven belief in God.
But now the question is --- what to do about the emotion itself?
I could see the void I am feeling as being analogous to heroin withdrawal. Might that be helpful?
(February 26, 2015 at 3:13 am)robvalue Wrote: Of course, this is all speaking as if we are logical robots. And the belief in God, in my opinion, does not stem from logic in the first place, but rather from emotion. So if there is an emotional attachment to a concept like God, then that's not something you can logically dissect in the same way. But I hope that you could examine the emotion instead, looking at what makes you feel that way, what your emotions are telling you, and consider if it is reliable. It's my opinion that this emotional attachment is what keeps people believing in God even when they admit they have no good reason to.
Yes! I think you hit the nail on the head!!!
The studies I have been doing lately in rigorous-logic (specifically what I have been doing in the area of Fallacy Recognition) have helped me reduce the degree to which emotions can *cloud* my logic ---- hence eliminating the emotionally-driven belief in God.
But now the question is --- what to do about the emotion itself?
I could see the void I am feeling as being analogous to heroin withdrawal. Might that be helpful?
