Someone just suggested that we can't say religions are right or wrong because people have different spiritual needs. That's very revealing.
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We wouldn't say 'It's nonsense to say only one president is real because people have different presidential needs.' We face the reality.
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And all religious should stand up to secular and theological critique. Otherwise they are being treated different in society.
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I personally have faith but I do think logic secular critiques should be understood and responded too with secular facts.
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Making an appeal to authority that is religious loses the secular argument automatically.
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going to your Hell example, I do not think it matters if Christians believe if, as long as they do not try to make on earth
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It would matter if they actually believed I should be tortured for all eternity for thinking differently.
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Well I feel like if a Christian embraced the message of Jesus, that is not for a Christian to judge you, but God.
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Although others will say that he said he came to uphold the law & this includes killing witches, loose women, gay ppl etc
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Untrue. When you are in the grip of a delusion the delusional reality is whole and true.
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Not sure how this accounts for the above. They are not fully in a delusion.
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"not fully in a delusion" implies there are stages to delusion. Just one wrong belief firmly held is enough to be delusional.
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How does this relate to what I have just said? Is this person delusional or not?
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Have you read 'Everybody is Wrong About God?' Indepth look at the psychology of religion & what people mean by 'God.'
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They're referring to normal social & psychological needs. Sometimes they come very close to acknowledging this.
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There are a great many non-believers who are religious congregants. Comments like the one you mentioned signal their humanism.
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But I wonder whether this is a respectable position, considering they are propping up the original, (pre-) post-truth discourse.
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I was told even atheists believe in God on their deathbeds, but agree that many "believers" rationalize their belief like that.
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Cognitive dissonance?
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I am a rare true believer, and that might be why I can take criticism of religion
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