Funny, I'd overlooked trhat. It works and and have the proof.
Do atheists indocrinate their children into their belief system?
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Funny, I'd overlooked trhat. It works and and have the proof.
On the one hand, I think most atheists would take the "there's no proof" tact. On the other, I'm not sure it's reasonable for you to presume that they should. What's next? "Well, Johnny, there's no evidence that there are any monsters under your bed tonight, but who knows?"
To help understand the mind of the indoctrinated and/or the gullible.
I represent many of what? Theism?
Are you sure that's what I said?
That doesn't mean theism is based on purely on hearsay. Does it?
Jan.
I just don't see atheists in the US doing stuff like this very often: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgvgjfwyPs&eurl=http://driftglass.blogspot.com/
Think I'll post that over in politics somewhere, while the link still works.
Think I'll post that over in politics somewhere, while the link still works.
I saw that a while ago. Still pretty funny.
Heh heh ... worshipping a cardboard cutout of Bush. Cool.
Let me guess, a clip from Jesus Camp?
have you ever demeaned a child's fear, only to find out there was a big spider there?
Off topic, but are you saying that Bush isn't a cardboard cutout ?
That's... pretty irrelevant. And no.
I question the beliefs of others mostly because they seem to have something that I want to have too - faith, self-confidence, peace of mind, certainty.
So I try to understand those people and see what instructions they can give me on how to get that faith, self-confidence, peace of mind, certainty.
Many people don't understand my drive and tend to think that I am merely picking on them.
You have faith in hoping to gain self-confidence, peace of mind, and certainty, by questioning others. Everybody has faith, otherwise we wouldn't do anything or go anywhere.
My theistic faith is based on experience, common sense, and what I understanding of the situation I am in. No different, I would guess than yours.
Jan.
I suspect that your faith is significantly different than mine, that you have significantly more peace of mind than I do.
You aren't differentiating between faith (belief without evidence) and trust (belief with evidence).
We can be fairly sure of certain things and events, and can therefore place trust, due to what we know of them. But what we know is far from complete.
We place faith in that which we cannot be certain, in the hope that we are correct. It all boils down to certainty.
Jan.
There's no way to determine that.
Only through faith can you hold on to that idea.
Jan.
It's called getting educated and understanding the world around us.
So, after telling us we can be sure of things that we know, which is based on scientific inquiry and experimentation, you now say that we should embrace blind faith to understand what we don't know?
If it boils down to certainty, then there is certainty that blind faith has got nothing to offer and that scientific inquiry is how we get to know things.