On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can believe that God exist, just because it is an old friend of > yours. >
Yes, and the reason for that is that for many the most important thing about a belief is not its truth. All else being equal people would prefer to be correct but all else is seldom equal and they'd rather be certain than right; and it's not just in religion. New Jersey is the only state in the USA that doesn't allow self service gas pumps, whenever the issue of changing the law comes up the state legislators bring up the same old tired arguments about it being too dangerous (despite it causing no problem in the other 49 states) and insist that only highly trained gas station attendants (working for minimum wage) have the expertise to pump gas correctly and safely. I don't believe that these politicians are so brain damaged that at least on some level they don't know these arguments are bogus, but they keep using them anyway because the truth is not the most important consideration for them and years ago they became certain it was dangerous and changing ones mind can be painful. > It is believing that God does not exist which is not rational. > So believing that a china teapot in orbit around the planet Uranus does not exist is not rational. Is believing that you will not suffocate before you finish reading this post because all the air molecules will move to the other side of the room due to random thermal vibrations also irrational? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
