Nimos
Well-Known Member
When we take on beliefs, we usually do so, because something convince of it being true and for pretty much all people this comes down to the amount and quality of evidence.
We don't normally prefer to take on beliefs, if we don't thing there is anything to back them up. So for instance, most people will have a very difficult time believing that unicorns exists, because we see no evidence for it being the case.
But to me at least, it seems like when you talk with religious people about their faith in a God or the supernatural, that they take an opposite approach.
Meaning....
God exist... therefore I have to find evidence for it
Rather than doing what they would normally do....
I have evidence for this..... therefore I believe it
Now I doubt a lot of religious people will agree with this, so I would like to hear, how that is not the case for your particular belief?
(When I say evidence, I mean something that can be verified as being true one way or another.)
We don't normally prefer to take on beliefs, if we don't thing there is anything to back them up. So for instance, most people will have a very difficult time believing that unicorns exists, because we see no evidence for it being the case.
But to me at least, it seems like when you talk with religious people about their faith in a God or the supernatural, that they take an opposite approach.
Meaning....
God exist... therefore I have to find evidence for it
Rather than doing what they would normally do....
I have evidence for this..... therefore I believe it
Now I doubt a lot of religious people will agree with this, so I would like to hear, how that is not the case for your particular belief?
(When I say evidence, I mean something that can be verified as being true one way or another.)