In the place where I'm living now, you can find plenty of perfect examples of this mindset operating exactly along the lines I've described. They can say such things because it's what they've been drilled in all their lives, or it's what they've converted to because they're looking for easy answers and a quick out to lives that up to the point they "accepted Jesus" have been failures.PainRack wrote:If so, how do they get off saying other religious books are the works of the devil, whereas their is God grace?Patrick Degan wrote: They don't realise it because all their lives they've been taught not to realise it. Not only are they unschooled in logic, they're made to understand that logic is the enemy of Faith. And as far as the actual Appeal to Authority goes... If you're brought up in awe of or fear of (in a lot of cases, both) Daddy, and that everything Daddy says must be true simply because he is Daddy, it's not that much of a leap to regard the Invisible Cloud Being and his storybook on the same terms.
Doesn't this strike any echo of a doubt at all? Back when I was a kid and believed in alien abductions, all it took to shake my belief was to note that alien abduction cases have been similarly used for ghost stories.
The people I know of aren't even hardcore fundies, but relatively liberal believers of christianity... and its not as if over here, they don't come into contact with other religions and philosophies........ Considering that some of these guys have families, whoose grandparents or uncles and cousins believed in Buddhism or Taoism, a cloistered lifestyle shouldn't be the answer.
Anti-empiricist rant
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Patrick Degan
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When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
Ok..... Thank you......Patrick Degan wrote: In the place where I'm living now, you can find plenty of perfect examples of this mindset operating exactly along the lines I've described. They can say such things because it's what they've been drilled in all their lives, or it's what they've converted to because they're looking for easy answers and a quick out to lives that up to the point they "accepted Jesus" have been failures.
Let him land on any Lyran world to taste firsthand the wrath of peace loving people thwarted by the myopic greed of a few miserly old farts- Katrina Steiner