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Thread #131699   Message #2980653
Posted By: Stringsinger
05-Sep-10 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Most beliefs are symptomatic of delusions. To believe in something is to construct something that may or may not be true. You don't have to believe in a scientific fact
because it is since it has been proven. For example, you don't have to believe in evolution since it has been accepted and verified by the best scientists. It's a fact.

To denigrate Dawkins by some of those who are religious on Mudcat only shows that they
haven't read any of his works. He has not attacked anyone personally but merely the ideologies of theocrats.

Believing in a nothing is not a belief. Its as if you are saying that just because you don't believe in a magic castle sitting on top of the Empire State Building, that is a belief.
That doesn't constitute a belief but constitutes nonsense. Non-belief is not belief.
That's twisting words. It should be obvious to reasonable people that non-belief is not belief but the opposite.

Any belief is however a profession of being right. That is what constitutes a belief.
It must be right for you to believe it. Would you believe in something that you considered wrong? I don't think so.

It is not a matter of throwing out worldviews, insights or quests but proving that they
have any validity or truth. There is in most cases, no baby there.