Do you stop there & trust that God is just & not worry that he might torture ppl for all eternity for believing wrong thing?
I'm still not convinced they're making a factual claim rather than a commitment to an ethical principle.
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Black & white ppl all have the same organs = factual claim. Black & white ppl shld be treated equally = principle.
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Yep. Again I am a huge fan of that principle. I think principles are articles of faith. Some systems see people = resources.
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Then you are talking abt faith in a different sense. I am only critical of believing *in* things without evidence.
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I totally support your critique tbh. We should all be critical in things we cannot prove.
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My defense of belief structures (religions and ideologies) would be an argument of outcomes. What is produced by these systems?
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If Christianity or feminism produced the most peaceful societies ever, this would be able to be stated.
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The individual claims made by them 'we can survive the deaths of our brains' 'Gender differences are cultural constructs'
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would not be proven by their good influence. Those claims could still well be false.
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