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Thread #139650   Message #3205520
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Aug-11 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
Subject: RE: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
No, my point was that the statement was nonsense: I mean the statement that saying you don't believe in something somehow confirms that the thing you don't believe in actually exists. I don't see how that statement can be anything BUT nonsense. Forget capitalization.

What if I didn't know that Hobbits were meant to be fictional? Would that mean I couldn't disbelieve in them?

Would it make any difference if I had said "Zeus and Hera" instead of "Hobbits?" I don't believe in them, either, although as far as I know, Zeus and Hera weren't originally conceived as fictional characters.

I assume by mentioning Zeus and Hera I am sticking to the "current, generally accepted, definition of religion." After all, there are any number of books and articles about "Religion in ancient Greece."