(March 27, 2020 at 5:35 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(March 27, 2020 at 5:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Oh, I dunno. You believe what you like, and you seem a nice enough fellow.
Boru
-but there's the rub...I actually don't believe anything I like. I couldn't, and still be a nice enough fellow. Genuinely and deeply held beliefs are consequential...no matter what they are.
Theism is a very specific genuinely and deeply held belief, with a long enough history of consequence to be predictable.
Do you mean that you hold beliefs that you don’t like, or that you don’t act on the beliefs you hold?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson