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Hezekiah the Christian with Skepticism
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  (March 21, 2014 at 11:41 pm)Zen Badger Wrote:(March 21, 2014 at 9:50 pm)Hezekiah Wrote: Hey thanks! And I am very serious about questioning my beliefs if I figured this would be the place to do it! Hey there! And thanks! Yea, I believe an evaluation and change of beliefs would be the unfortunate, but necessary thing to do 
RE: Hezekiah the Christian with Skepticism
March 22, 2014 at 12:25 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2014 at 12:26 pm by tor.)
Hezekiah when are you gonna apply skepticism to christianity?
(March 22, 2014 at 12:25 pm)tor Wrote: Hezekiah when are you gonna apply skepticism to christianity? I guess I'm not a hard skeptic, but everytime I engage in conversation I put it up to light of my own beliefs and see how it plays out. But you're right, maybe skepticism isn't the accurate description.
So you are not a skeptic?
I mean somebody who does not believe in bullshit.
Then change the title because there is no such thing as a christian skeptic. If you apply skepticism to christianity you stop being a christian.
 (March 22, 2014 at 12:59 pm)Hezekiah Wrote: If by skeptic you mean someone who recognizes that I don't know and I'm still searching, I consider myself one, yes. But if you mean someone who purely chooses to suspend belief in anything altogether, no not at all. A skeptic, in philosophical terms, is someone that requires that their beliefs be supported by demonstrable evidence, and reasoned argument. Most theists that I've run across are skeptics when is come to claims such as: big foot, UFO abductions, Loch Ness monster, etc. But they wall off a portion of their mind where they put their Christian beliefs, and do not examine them with the same level of skepticism as those other claims. Welcome aboard! You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence. |
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