Some atheists complain that religion is all about subjectivity and intuition, but is it really?
No, I think the dangerous orthodoxies come from a different mentality to a love of woo.
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I think it ultimately comes from an unwillingness to revise beliefs. The world is ever changing so beliefs/behavior need to change too.
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And our understanding of the world is ever evolving. A problem with faith-based and other broken epistemologies is they don't evolve with it
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But I think, as Christian is suggesting, that there are two epistemologies in religious belief.
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One has a faulty premise but works logically from it. Engineers & scientists overrepresented in jihadis.
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The other doesn't want knowledge to exist but is happiest in a fog of subjective truth & fuzzy spirituality.
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I think I may have been unclear above. I meant "I think *the danger* ultimately comes from an unwillingness to revise beliefs.."
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We can all agree on that.
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Yeah I wasn't challenging you in my first two responses in this thread.
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