«If you leave your wild
beliefs out of your argument, you'll have a much better chance of making a point that is logical to anyone other than you» -------- So why didn't you give that advice to Doc when he insinuated that God is anthropocentric?
Not exact matches
I would like to point
out that those from both sides
of the
argument on
belief have one similarity... the lack
of tolerance.
People get sucked up in the
belief so intently that no logical
argument can bring them
out of it.
And if the
argument is that businesses can have personal
beliefs, then you have just argued for getting businesses
out of healthcare altogether and moving to universal healthcare.
I agree that
arguments based solely on religious
beliefs are not useful or persuasive to those with different
beliefs and should be kept
out of the debate.
@NAH, can rebut each
of Colin's points in a reasonable manner, specifically let me call
out two (both sort
of related)-- the Christianity refers to only 600 years
of history, and only refers to a small geography (not even the entire earth)-- why «leap
of faith»
argument is valid for Christianity and not for other independent faiths, which have many contradictory
beliefs compared to Christianity, and if they are equally valid, how can they all be equally valid
Hence some aethiest stop sounding logical once you point
out any flaws in their
arguments because at this point their merely defending their
beliefs and not really trying to have some sort
of logical discussion.
Hence some believers stop sounding logical once you point
out any flaws in their
arguments because at this point their merely defending their
beliefs and not really trying to have some sort
of logical discussion.
I will here only state my
belief that it will be found that the primitive kerygma arises directly
out of the teaching
of Jesus about the Kingdom
of God and all that hangs upon it; but that it does only partial justice to the range and depth
of His teaching, and needs the Pauline and Johannine interpretations before it fully rises to the height
of the great
argument.
The secular left is deeply committed to their idea that public
arguments must be limited to secular reason, with religious
beliefs and
arguments ruled
out of bounds.
Here is the curious thing: As I interact with people
of other religions, and through the course
of conversation find
out why they hold their
beliefs, I find that nearly all people
of all religions have these same four basic
arguments for why their
beliefs are true.
There are reasoned
arguments for
belief in a higher power, but you might have to read a book to find them, because you might not find them hanging
out with a bunch
of atheists.
Honestly, when one
of the debates in the film turns into an all -
out brawl because one candidate brings up a story the other wrote when the opponent was 8 years old and calls it his «Communist manifesto» (See, one character in the story gives a pot
of gold to a leprechaun, and that, according to the first candidate, is an example
of his foe's innate
belief in the redistribution
of wealth), we're laughing in part because we've heard
arguments of this variety before and with seemingly more frequency in the past few years.
Any unreasoning extremist on either side will be able to take issue with the above and following statements, flinging copiously truthy WUWTisms or IPCCness, and try to jump in and take control
of the agenda with their strategic
arguments to drown
out a balanced stepwise approach capable
of producing some alleviation for victims
out of no more than fervent
belief in their own side, but to them I say a plague on both your houses.
One would think that on a science news website, a denier
of a popular
belief in a field
of science would be able to point
out WHY the popular
belief is incorrect rather than be dependent on the always flimsy
argument of a conspiracy.