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Post by endtimesnow on Feb 25, 2021 4:34:27 GMT
Better to be totally beliefless than an Atheist
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Post by homeschooldad on Feb 25, 2021 18:06:30 GMT
This is an interesting point of view, but how would you define "beliefless"? Agnostic? Refusing to state anything one way or the other regarding religion? Not believing anything that any "revealed" religion teaches, when it goes beyond natural law or what the human race commonly regards as wrong --- murder, stealing, hatred, and so on? Or saying something like "I do not give religion any thought at all, and I think and act as though God, religion, or the supernatural do not even exist"?
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Post by hakutaku on Mar 1, 2021 19:17:07 GMT
This is an interesting point of view, but how would you define "beliefless"? Agnostic? Refusing to state anything one way or the other regarding religion? Not believing anything that any "revealed" religion teaches, when it goes beyond natural law or what the human race commonly regards as wrong --- murder, stealing, hatred, and so on? Or saying something like "I do not give religion any thought at all, and I think and act as though God, religion, or the supernatural do not even exist"? Probably something closer to pure skepticism.
Strictly speaking, all reasons for believing in the reliability of our human sense-and-reason are circular insofar as sense-and-reason is the only tool we have for evaluating reasons in the first place. So if a pure-skeptic doubts sense-and-reason, he cannot be certain about any other belief, nor can he be persuaded. Quasi-paradoxically, he cannot even be certain about the correctness of his own doubt.
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Post by homeschooldad on Mar 13, 2021 22:34:58 GMT
This is an interesting point of view, but how would you define "beliefless"? Agnostic? Refusing to state anything one way or the other regarding religion? Not believing anything that any "revealed" religion teaches, when it goes beyond natural law or what the human race commonly regards as wrong --- murder, stealing, hatred, and so on? Or saying something like "I do not give religion any thought at all, and I think and act as though God, religion, or the supernatural do not even exist"? Probably something closer to pure skepticism.
Strictly speaking, all reasons for believing in the reliability of our human sense-and-reason are circular insofar as sense-and-reason is the only tool we have for evaluating reasons in the first place. So if a pure-skeptic doubts sense-and-reason, he cannot be certain about any other belief, nor can he be persuaded. Quasi-paradoxically, he cannot even be certain about the correctness of his own doubt.
This sort of echoes Descartes, who doubted everything except that he thought, and therefore he existed. |
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