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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Subjective? Possibly. But when the weatherman asserts a probability of rain, I trust that his factors are logically weighed....
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I think it's more dangerous for the person doing it. Some theist may want to kill me for pointing out that any Theism has more....
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....assumptions than any Deism (since all of Theism adds an intervenory characteristic not required by Deism to explain the same things).
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And I am indeed aware of the temptation to read ambiguities as favoring one's existing predispositions.
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I'm not proposing that it is possible to logically conclude the truth of one belief over another, but we can first eliminate the illogical.
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(one of the first points of concession I make in such a discussion is that I, like anybody, could be mistaken as to everything I believe)