On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actions carry weight only if they are based upon the correct beliefs. >
I don't think so. If you hit me in the head with a heavy ax t hat action carries weight regardless of what beliefs were or were not dancing around in your head when you did it. If somebody does the wrong thing for the right reason it's still the wrong thing, and the right thing for the wrong reason is still the right thing. > As I understand it, in this world we have been sent to be tested > But why do religious people insist God devised it as is it as a stupidity test rather than a IQ te st? > > > as stated in Quran 8:4. For those who believe and seek forgiveness for > their sins, God will grace them with a garden as extensive as heaven > So says the Quran, and you believe it's true for the same reason anybody believes what the Quran (or the Bible) says is true, because their Mommy and Daddy told them it's true. It's no deeper than that. That's why there aren't many Baptists in Pakistan but lots of them in Mississippi. If you tell me where somebody was born I can have a pretty good idea what their religious beliefs are. Your deepest held beliefs are a function of Geography. So it's easy to understand why a human could gain power by pushing the idea that believing in stuff he can't prove is a good idea, but you still haven't answered the question I asked in my last post. W h y on earth would an omniscient being consider holding an unshakable belief in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence to be a virtue and not a vice ? 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
