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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 03/12/04 10:53am
In reply to:
Baz
's message, "A Question for Wade" on 03/ 7/04 2:27am
>I assume, Wade, that your parents believe(d) in God
>and you have believed in God from a young age. If so,
>you must realise that belief in God is not a matter of
>reason, but a matter of the opinions of loved
>authority figures and the emotive effect that belief
>brings.
At least in the early years of my life, I suspect that's true. But as I have grown into my adult years I have seriously questioned my belief in God in deep contemplation. Is it rational? Is atheism rationally preferable? On what grounds? Etc., etc. As it currently stands, my belief on God is based on reason.
>This initiation of belief did not require reason or
>proof, and if you were very young when belief was
>instilled or taken on by yourself - a time when you
>were unable to reason and argue as you do today - then
>your belief must have been based on faith in those who
>introduced you to the idea of God and faith that what
>they and the bible said was true.
In the early years of my life, I suspect that's true.
>One may come to question and reason about one's belief
>in God, but that childhood belief in God is not based
>on deep contemplation and logic. If you agree that
>this is the case, then why do you expend so much
>energy attempting to debunk various aspects of science
>and harness logic to the cause, when your belief in
>God (which I presume developed, or was indoctrinated,
>in relatively early childhood) had, and therefore
>still has, very little to do with reasoned thought?
When have I sought to debunk "various aspects of science"? My belief in God now has very much to do with reasoned thought.
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