Roger, Not at all. In the previous response to your comment I said that there are miths, that myths and beliefs are very important, but not that religion is nothing but that.
I just gave a positivistic argument to convince people that adhere to the positivistic faith. That does not mean that I´m materialist nor positivist. 2012/9/12 Roger Clough <[email protected]> > Hi Alberto G. Corona > > You are obviously one of those that believe that religion is > "nothing but" a bunch of myths. Could be, but not necessarily so. > You have fallen for the "nothing but" fallacy. If religion > is true I would be surprised if it DIDN'T appear in myths. > It should be part of the human experience in some sense if true. > > Roger Clough, [email protected] > 9/12/2012 > Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him > so that everything could function." > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> > *Receiver:* everything-list <[email protected]> > *Time:* 2012-09-12, 06:22:24 > *Subject:* Re: victims of faith > > There is no difference at all between religious mitifications and other > mitifucatuons . See form, example the paper about Darwin that I posted. > religion is a label that appears when the爉ith爄s old enough it has enough > believers and the object of mitification is far away in time. � > > People are reluctant to admit that they have unfounded beliefs. Specially > if they have been educated in the belief that any belief is bad and into > the belied that they have no beliefs. But to have a commong ground of > beliefs is a prerequisite for individual and social life. 營 think that my > theory of social capital, mytopoesis and belief and the assimilaion of good > and truth is sound in evolutuionary terms, and provides a factual/operation > definition of Truth in the world of the mind, which is the only world > accesible to us. > > > 2012/9/11 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > every statement about 爓hatever, included "reality" is made with mental >> > concepts . 燭he definition of truth, reality , factual, religion, depend >> on >> > axioms or unproved statements. I presented a computational-evolutionary, >> > falsable, exposition of what religion is: 燼 part of a wider class of >> > phenomenons of "reality construction" and I demonstrated IHMO that no >> man is >> > free from it. >> >> Aspects of religious belief such as mythopoesis, do occur in other >> facets of life, such as politics and even science. But what is unique >> about religion is that its proponents make factual statements which >> they proudly profess to believe in the absence of any supporting >> evidence, while disallowing such reasoning for bizarre beliefs >> different to their own without any apparent awareness of the >> inconsistency. >> >> >> -- >> Stathis Papaioannou >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
