New post on how I stopped being a fundie homeschooler evangelist
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One bone to pick: for Deists/Pandeists, belief systems very well may be “the things we’ve logically concluded about the world.”
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?? All belief systems serve functions - even deism/pandeism. There is no such thing as pure logical conclusion about something like that.
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....but surely one can lay out all theological possibilities, and make logically valid determinations about their relative probability, with
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probability is deeply subjective, as it is a calculation dependent on perspective, 'logically valid probability prediction is nonsensical
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Well, yes, insofar as even Atheism -- when taken as a gnostic position -- serves social signaling and self-defining functions....
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an appropriate shelving of the usual indoctrinational and societal biases. One can see our Universe as quite possibly a created thing.
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And though we may disagree, if you write out your case for it, I'll publish it -- since I may have been wrong all along.