Again, you are ignoring all the vast body that refutes your position, of watching normal Buddhists or Muslims or Hindus of India 100-200 years ago that stopped and prayed at every shrine along the Grand Trunk regardless of what God or Religion the shrine was dedicated to. You are ignoring the Taoist traditions that redily adopted and recognized most any religion; of the Native American "powwows" where different tribes gathered and told their own tales of religion and origins and the other nations paying attention and saying "that's interesting"; of the modern Ecumenical Movement, of the Romanization of the Greek religions as well as the Christian practice of adopting and re-purposing most any celebration from Christmas to Easter to Passover to Pentecost.
And yet they were still Buddists and Toists and Muslims and Hindus and Christians and believe what they believe.
Religions have never been monolithic and have all evolved and changed over time.
Religions are what mankind makes them. Some change some don't.
But it's irrelevant to the point. Almost exclusively you will believe what your society/parents/time believes.
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"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.
I didn't know ANYTHING about religion so I read EVERYTHING. I read about Hinduism, I read the gurus, I read about Buddhism, I was sure I'd become one or the other, I read about various occultic practices, and I practiced some occultic oracles, I read about many cults, I read Rosicrucianism, I read Theosophy, I read Gnosticism, I learned how to make astrological charts because it's part of some of those things including Hinduism and some friends had taken me for a truly astonishing personal astrological reading. In all this I believed in "God" but certainly belived in the supernatural at least. I read quite a bit of Roman Catholicism, I thought I'd become a Catholic, I read some of the early Chuch Fathers, Augustine, Athanasius, it took me a LONG time to get to the Protestants, and I did not like Martin Luther at all. And I did not like Jerry Falwell. C. S. Lewis was interesting though and I read quite a few of his books. I don't remember what finally convinced me for sure. NO I DID NOT START OUT WITH ANY INCLINATION TOWARD ANY PARTICULAR RELIGION, CERTAINLY NOT TOWARD THE PROTESTANTISM I NOW EMBRACE. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO STOP THINKING THEY KNOW BETTER THAN I DO HOW I BECAMNE A BELIEVER.
Well if you don't know it's happening then allow me to suggest that you are swimming in confirmation bias with every word you utter, and so is everybody else here. Why pick on me because I'm a Christian? Bevcause of YOUR confirmation bias. None of you has yet szaid one true thing about this subject. Bunch of prejudiced know-nothings.
Well if you don't know it's happening then allow me to suggest that you are swimming in confirmation bias with every word you utter, and so is everybody else here. Why pick on me because I'm a Christian? Bevcause of YOUR confirmation bias. None of you has yet szaid one true thing about this subject. Bunch of prejudiced know-nothings.
Everybody has confirmation bias and predudices. But some have at least attempted to minimise their effects. Science is specifically designed to reduce bias to as low a point as is possible. But you regularly and openly admit to extreme bias. You say that when a fact contradicts your beliefs, it's the fact that is wrong.
There's no worse/better example. Your thinking is motivated towards your belief.
Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.
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.
... allow me to suggest that you are swimming in confirmation bias with every word you utter, and so is everybody else here.
That's definitely true. We're all susceptible to confirmation bias as well as a host of other weaknesses. The difference is that we correct each other. If I'm wrong about something, there's no shortage of people on this forum who will point it out, whether we're on the same "side" or not. You, on the other hand, revel in being alone in your thinking. That's a cesspool for confirmation bias to grow in.
Right, I'm wrong about my own history. OK so you must be wrong about yours. Nothing you've ever said about yourself is true. You weren't raised Christian, you just imagined it, you were really raised to believe what you now believe or you wouldn't believe it because that's how it is. Nobody ever learns anything new, you can't change your beliefs, you could read hundreds of books and just believe what you already believed, even though you didn't know you believed it, because of confirmation bias because you WANT to believe w3hat you already believe even though you didn't know you believed it. Right. There's certainly no point in going to school because nobody can learn anything anyway.
Yes, in my mid to late forties I learned the Truth and where anything contradicts it I know it is wrong. Before I learned the Truth I believed all the same false stuff you all believe about evolution.
Right, I'm wrong about my own history. OK so you must be wrong about yours. Nothing you've ever said about yourself is true. You weren't raised Christian, you just imagined it, you were really raised to believe what you now believe or you wouldn't believe it because that's how it is
I'm certainly open to correction. As I mentioned, we correct each other here whether we're on the same "side" or not. For example, I've certainly crossed swords with Tangle before but we're telling you the same thing here. Maybe you should consider the possibility that you're not omniscient.
Yes, in my mid to late forties I learned the Truth and where anything contradicts it I know it is wrong. Before I learned the Truth I believed all the same false stuff you all believe about evolution.
You've pleaded guilty, I rest my case
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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