”I can only assume that you don't really have a philosophically defensible basis for your beliefs.”
Arguing whether conventional science, mainstream religion, or any mainstay worldview is the exclusive basis for understanding our existence is really being up the creek with out a paddle, as all are belief systems bound to venture into corrupt waters of perverted doctrine, coercive control, and manipulation by self serving elite authorities, infecting devotes with dogmatic attitudes, who then attack and ridicule any who would raise uncomfortable questions.
They are illusory divisions of people into ideological groupings which inevitably betray their own ideological foundations in corruption of core principle to cleanse ‘evil’ from their midst, paradoxically committing the most heinously brutal crimes in recorded history, over and over again. This predictable outcome never fails.
Continuing the water metaphor; beliefs on there own, are like grasping to a rock in the middle of a wild river, it will sustain you temporarily but no more. Faith should always come ahead of and carry belief. Faith is learning to swim, which enables the belief that the reward for genuine efforts will be achieved. Genuine religion is no different than genuine science; each promises the reward of greater knowledge, is open, alive, and encourages the conduct of a seeker of truth.
It is ironic that the major world views stifle such endeavor for self serving purposes but they do. Further, they insist on the false divisions when studying science, faith based beliefs, philosophy, and mysteries of all sorts which all naturally exist as manifold and unified paths to the same end. |
