Religion
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.-Harry S Truman Atheism is commonly attacked as being a religion, a worldview with faith-based presuppositions. The label is applied by theists in an attempt to deflect arguments against their own religion. This is a counterattack from a weakened position (see Upping the Anti Ante), a Tu Quoquo fallacy […]
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Compassion is the basis of morality. -Arthur Schopenhauer A common claim of the religious is that objective morality cannot exist without a deity. How can we know right from wrong without a lawgiving creator who has imprinted the laws of proper behavior upon our souls? This is an insulting assertion that, though we have complex
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. -Steve Jobs
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As my research into belief progressed it became apparent that a piece of the explanation was missing—the inherent tendency to believe. Believence (noun) A propensity to believe, especially via intuition or desire. “Having a high believence makes it easier for
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There is a right and wrong way to evaluate a piece of information. When people use different methods a populace ends up holding different sets of “facts” and beliefs. Regardless of ideological loyalties we all want to be on the side of truth. How we get there is open to debate and we must be
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Book by Jonathan Haidt There has been significant activity on psychological and sociological fronts over the past twenty years trying to find explanations for the differences between liberals and conservatives. Many studies have indeed indicated distinctions, perhaps innate. Haidt’s thesis is a moral
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Ignorant themselves of the forces of nature and wanting to have company in their ignorance, they do not want people to look into anything; they want us to believe like peasants and not ask the reason behind things …. But we say the reason behind everything should be sought out! -(William of Conches (c. 1090-1154
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