RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 18, 2019 at 5:12 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2019 at 5:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I have a favorite example. Every morning I walk into the bathroom and take a shit. Then, the sun rises. No need to thank me, yet another service I provide.
Does anyone believe that my morning shit causes the sun to rise? No. Is their positive disbelief in that claim reasoned? Hard yes.
For a direct analog. Does anyone believe that a god played around in the mud and that's how people were made? Hilariously, yes. Is positive disbelief in that claim reasoned? Hard yes. Even if there were gods, it didn't happen like that..in the same way that my taking a shit every morning being a factual claim doesn't alter the truth status of the claim tat said shit causes the sun to rise. In a similar vein, even if there were some reason or cause to all things in existence, it won't alter the truth status of the second half of every creator claim - that said reason or cause was an anthropomorphic misunderstanding of the universe and events as a whole.
I suspect that, instinctively, even the most devout fairy believer knows this. They don't want to bicker about fairies, after all. They prefer to argue for "causes". Caused shit has causes, the suns rising in the morning has a cause too..just not my morning shit. If the universe has a cause...then it has a cause, but that doesn't change the fact that this cause isn't the mental turd some lovingly call a creator
Does anyone believe that my morning shit causes the sun to rise? No. Is their positive disbelief in that claim reasoned? Hard yes.
For a direct analog. Does anyone believe that a god played around in the mud and that's how people were made? Hilariously, yes. Is positive disbelief in that claim reasoned? Hard yes. Even if there were gods, it didn't happen like that..in the same way that my taking a shit every morning being a factual claim doesn't alter the truth status of the claim tat said shit causes the sun to rise. In a similar vein, even if there were some reason or cause to all things in existence, it won't alter the truth status of the second half of every creator claim - that said reason or cause was an anthropomorphic misunderstanding of the universe and events as a whole.
I suspect that, instinctively, even the most devout fairy believer knows this. They don't want to bicker about fairies, after all. They prefer to argue for "causes". Caused shit has causes, the suns rising in the morning has a cause too..just not my morning shit. If the universe has a cause...then it has a cause, but that doesn't change the fact that this cause isn't the mental turd some lovingly call a creator
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