“You’re using rationalist methods to support religion”
Thank you very much for the compliment. However, it is totally undeserved. Being essentially an atheist (well, agnostic to be precise), supporting religion was the last thing on my mind. What I really wanted to do is to test how rational and intelligent people, which I hoped would be overrepresented on this forum, would react to arguments that go against their preferred view.
It is interesting that everyone seems to assume that I am a religious person myself, though I thought the contrary should be pretty obvious from the post title. Personally, I have yet to meet people who would call their beliefs “irrational”.
I call plenty of my beliefs irrational… at least during the window between where I realize I have them, find the basis for them, and then fix them. ;-)
“It is interesting that everyone seems to assume that I am a religious person myself, though I thought the contrary should be pretty obvious from the post title.”
“You’re using rationalist methods to support religion”
Thank you very much for the compliment. However, it is totally undeserved. Being essentially an atheist (well, agnostic to be precise), supporting religion was the last thing on my mind. What I really wanted to do is to test how rational and intelligent people, which I hoped would be overrepresented on this forum, would react to arguments that go against their preferred view.
It is interesting that everyone seems to assume that I am a religious person myself, though I thought the contrary should be pretty obvious from the post title. Personally, I have yet to meet people who would call their beliefs “irrational”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
I call plenty of my beliefs irrational… at least during the window between where I realize I have them, find the basis for them, and then fix them. ;-)
“It is interesting that everyone seems to assume that I am a religious person myself, though I thought the contrary should be pretty obvious from the post title.”
Guilty as charged. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
I didn’t. I assumed you were making a valuable point but using a poor argument while doing so.