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Religion

MasonDreams

(777 posts)

4. I'll believe it when I see it. Unless it's something Inconvienent like Global Warming.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 06:15 PM

Dec 2015

Ya know, now that I have thought about it a little, I've decided to believe anything. If it makes life easier for me.
I don't want to wrestle with moral questions, or feel guilty. I'll just let the Donald make my decisions!
All discourse ends right after the words "I Believe" unless a better choice of words is "I Think"
These things are not absolute though, there is Gnosis.

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I think, "belief" is a survival-technique rather than a means of revelation. [View all] DetlefK Dec 2015 OP

The problem, then, as you define it, seems to be doctrine, not belief itself. TygrBright Dec 2015 #1

Something that is "all-encompassing, absolute and infallible"... trotsky Dec 2015 #3

There was no longer-lasting totalitarian system than the Roman Empire. rug Dec 2015 #6

In Michael Shermers book The Believing Brain, this is exactly what belief is... cleanhippie Dec 2015 #2

I'll believe it when I see it. Unless it's something Inconvienent like Global Warming. MasonDreams Dec 2015 #4

If that is essentially true, why don't animals have religion? rug Dec 2015 #5