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eppur_se_muova

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19. That is about the weirdest unfounded conclusion I have ever encountered.

Thu Dec 12, 2019, 09:50 AM

Dec 2019

You actually think it's better to believe in something -- anything -- rather than to be skeptical of utterly unfounded, utterly unprovable folk/fairy tales ? That's pretty mixed up. You must believe other people are incredibly weak-minded to think they can't get by without the crutch of some fantasy Big Daddy father-figure-in-the-sky. Billions of people do just that, and I don't know of anyone who's ever said it is in any remote way a challenge. It's nothing but common sense -- don't believe in that for which there is absolutely no unambiguous evidence.

If you couldn't imagine what it's like to lack religion -- THE NATURAL CONDITION TO WHICH EVERYONE IS BORN, before they are indoctrinated by brainwashing -- you have a crippling lack of imagination. I don't believe in anything so blindingly that I can't imagine someone, somewhere -- probably many someones -- believe otherwise. That doesn't mean I concede they're right. Different people believe different things, and always have, and not necessarily because they're "vulnerable".

BTW, do unbelievers feel "alone" ? Um, no, not at all. But thank you for your deeply felt concern.

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