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I don't understand how that is possible. However with cognitive dissonance that is somewhat possible. I have seen grown men try to rationalize a belief in Santa Claus. Many people lie to themselves and have a dual belief whereby their interests are served by one belief while it contradicts what they suppress but know is true.
Jace
I am sure I do. Of course I am constanting learning and when I discover a questionable or false belief I make changes. This is one reason I am generally not particularly dogmatic about most of the things I believe.
Tristan
I am sure I do. Of course I am constanting learning and when I discover a questionable or false belief I make changes. This is one reason I am generally not particularly dogmatic about most of the things I believe.
Anonymous
I am sure I do. Of course I am constanting learning and when I discover a questionable or false belief I make changes. This is one reason I am generally not particularly dogmatic about most of the things I believe.
jotacar
Gods are imaginary creatures, first conceived of over 100 000 years ago in the early years of "homo erectus" - modern man.
Early men and women were naturally curious about where the earth and all that it contained - including them - had come from.
Someone in those early days came up with the notion that there must have been a creator of some sort, who brought the world into being.
Since they were ignorant of even the most elementary knowledge of physics, the ancients cannot be expected to have known anything at all about the fluctuation in space/time which ***actually did cause our universe to appear***.
It is not fair then to ridicule these early people for having invented creation and a Supreme Being. In profoundly ignorant times, one must use whatever limited knowledge one has to reach conclusions.
(The ancients also wondered where they were going to go after death. Their imaginations worked overtime and they came up with immortal souls and a heavenly afterlife - ideas which more thoughtful people know today to have no foundation whatsoever.)
The only correct definition of god then is: an imaginary being, who four out of five adults across the world accept as real, but who is a complete illusion.
By the way 100% of people once thought that the earth was flat. 100% of people also thought that the sun circled the earth ever day (and a few dull-witted people still believe that). DO NOT TELL ME that "if 80% of the adult population believes in god, they *must* be correct". Once !00% per cent were wrong about the earth and the sun, and the 80% are CERTAINLY wrong about god now.
Let's not just get older. Let's grow up too.
People.
Please do not tell me that your false belief in god is the same as my clearly intelligent conclusion that gods do not exist.
The difference is that someone once invented a god, and you have chosen to go along with his false reasoning, and adopt his belief, while I reject his notion, and have no belief of any kind about his god.
You affirm. I deny. They are not the same things at all.
There is no equivalence between your credulity and my rejection of an ancient and silly idea.
The first is dumb and dumber, and the other is sensible.
Don't just get older, folks. Also try to grow up.