This is a technical look at religious arguments, both for and against the way way in which religion describes our experience. I suggest you skim the preview of the paper for more understanding, but the video is an adequate primer for answering the following question – Are your beliefs, theistic or non-theist,ic causing you to beg the doxastic question?
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May 23, 2012 at 6:32 am
IzaakMak
Good question! One which will definitely require thought…
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May 23, 2012 at 10:38 am
danielwalldammit
I can’t help but to think there is a little bit of slippage between biographic and argumentative considerations in this.
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May 23, 2012 at 1:02 pm
bleatmop
My disbelief isn’t contingent on my accepting or rejecting silly arguments, such as the ontological argument, that are inherently flawed and set up false dilemmas, but rather a matter of there being no proof for a god existing. Once I started caring whether my beliefs were true or not it became a simple matter to reevaluate all beliefs that I carried that had no compelling evidence for them.
The fact that christianity is so easy to pick apart certainly eased my transition as well. I do credit youtube atheists like thunderfoot and thermian trees for helping me see opposition to arguments I was indoctrinated as a child to belief. I also credit youtube theists such as Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron for being so ridiculous to turn me off of christianity.
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