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Choosing to believe

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Larni
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Message 11 of 90 (393262)
04-04-2007 3:52 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Woodsy
03-30-2007 1:57 PM

Would love to believe
Dude, I would love to believe that there really was a avuncular patriarchial god who would reunite me with lost loved ones if I towed the party line.
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But I just can't see it.
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I don't have any choice. To believe in xian god would be to lie to myself.
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Larni
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04-04-2007 1:52 PM 		Reply to: Message 17 by anastasia
04-04-2007 12:56 PM

ana writes:
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If there is such a thing as choosing to believe, none of us are exempt from the possibility that we are doing so.
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I would say that any one with a religious belief makes a conscious choice to believe. At one point you had no knowledge of your god, then the concept was presented to you by your immediate culture.
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If it was presented as fact the choice to believe was greatly restricted for you; if it was presented as an idea that may have some merit and you embrace it you have done so through choice.
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ana writes:
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That's not belief. That is knowledge.
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Not so. It could have been a hallucination, a pantomime moose, a life sized picture of a moose, a moose like object etc.
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One infers that it is a moose based on the sensory evidence you aquire. One can very easily get it wrong.
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