Phat writes:
You are the same way.
You're fotgetting - yet again - that I once believed what you believe.
You believe what you have grown up into.
See above.
You believe that banks are sound.
No I don't. Are you going to continue being wrong?
You believe that your money will always be safe.
Yes, you're going to continue being wrong. Perhaps these are/where your beliefs?
You believe that if we stomp out all religious superstition throughout the world that rationality will at last prevail and that people will have a better shot at carrying on our species.
No I don't.
I know that we can not ever stamp out supertstion and irrationality. It's part of us and any attempt to 'stamp it out' will only make it thrive. What will happen naturally is that the more stupid beliefs will gradually die out as the world becomes better educated. As we see happening now. It will take many generations.
But how do you really know that each and every story was made up from the beginning?
I don't have to know that, all I need to know is that thousands of gods and religions and cults exist and have been and gone. That tells me that there is no grounds for thinking that the one YOU believe in - totally by an accident of birth - is any different than the others. Especially as you have absolutely no evidence to support it.
How *do* you explain Mormonism?
And how do you know that today's science and logic has the best story for our future?
It doesn't have a story for our future, it explains what is around us. Our best hope for our future is ourselves. In fact that's our *only* hope. Your bloody rediculous god is doing nothing for anybody.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona
"Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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