RE: Time to embrace Islam!
December 11, 2019 at 4:15 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2019 at 4:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 11, 2019 at 12:11 am)maxolla Wrote: I guess I haven’t considered reasonable belief as a category apart from certainty. I think the point is that belief is chosen and not necessarily based on complete evidence.
You reckon so, eh? Okay, quick test - stop believing in god. Just choose that. Doesn't work, does it?
That's because our beliefs aren't chosen regardless of how complete any evidence may be. Neither you nor I are capable of choosing what we do or don't, can or cant believe. Whatever portion of your belief rests on this belief..is flat out garbage. This usually boils down to some silly shit about how this or that thingf..in our failure to believe, aint gods fault/and or our "choosing" to believe is virtue.
Moot point, if it's not a real thing, huh? Even if we imagine a world positively choked with gods..that's still not a thing that human beings can do. That's a pretty amusing place for religious beliefs to be in, false no matter what else we imagine. False even if the god they're leveraged toward is standing in the room with us right now.
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