No.Is belief in the supernatural an intelligent person’s game? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Is belief or faith in the supernatural a worthy idea for us or is it a tool used by lying preachers intent on fleecing sheeple?
Is belief in the supernatural an intelligent person’s game?
Is belief or faith in the supernatural a worthy idea for us or is it a tool used by lying preachers intent on fleecing sheeple? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
People believe in all kinds of things which wouldn't exist apart from the belief. Justified, true, belief=knowledge. How much of what makes the anthropocentric world turn has no seat in anything but belief? Humans are untrue beings as they revolve around constructions impossible to have knowledge of. When enough people believe the same thing to be so, it is so (becomes same as gravity)...even if it isn't so in the extrahuman world. Social constructions are similar to the supernatural in this way. Money is ghosts. The content hardly matters when the content is belief in something that doesn't exist.Is belief in the supernatural an intelligent person’s game? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Humans are untrue beings as they revolve around constructions impossible to have knowledge of. When enough people believe the same thing to be so, it is so (becomes same as gravity)...even if it isn't so in the extrahuman world. Social constructions are similar to the supernatural in this way. Money is ghosts. — Anthony
Why do you say so? — Brett
we need a new story. One that doesn’t preserve closer-to-God hierarchy or a cosmic patriarchy. — Izat So
But intelligence on its own does not grant immunity to it. — Theologian
but none of them was an atheist or naturalist — Matias
If you assume that religious belief is the game of the stupid, you are mistaken. — Matias
I find my beliefs form a sort of scaffold on which to assemble my own personal mental model of the world, — Pattern-chaser
It's wise to be a cynic toward shared beliefs rooted in impossible knowledge. — Anthony
Why do people assume the supernatural, or gods, or whatever, should conform to our all-too-human ideas about morality? — yupamiralda
So your answer is a fool and his money are easily parted. — Brett
I think we all do that and that is why it is important to have ones thinking in reality instead of fiction or the supernatural. If you use junk members in your scaffold, it is not safe. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Much of "reality" is unknown and unknowable to us. — Pattern-chaser
To not at least stick to what can be known, and think what cannot be known is real, would be people giving up logic and reason for fantasy. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
It would be nice if it was only the fools money, but non-believing tax payers have to make up the billion dollar short fall that religious tax exemptions create.
Believer or not, you are paying for lying clergy to continue lying. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Much of "reality" is unknown and unknowable to us.
— Pattern-chaser
Science would disagree. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
A necessary, common-sense, fantasy, given our position, but fantasy nonetheless. — Pattern-chaser
I don’t see what this has to do with individuals believing in something other than the material world. — Brett
But your response is equally problematic since you cannot know whether we will find out most things. — Coben
Do you need saving and what did you do to be condemned? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
True that reality is a collective hunch. Still better to not add to the objective reality by adding a fantasy that one must believe in to be saved. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
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