you do not use reason to determine your beliefs and opinion, not at all
I don't agree and I think I know more about my beliefs, opinions and how I came to them than you do.
This is just another effort to provoke argument for personal reasons of your own. And not rational reasons either, I would say, but for what you'd call 'gut' reasons. If personal animosity isn't 'gut' what is?
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a person is able to live in accordance with the actions urged on one by Christianity, and that means live in accordance with Christian morality, the person will likely live a more fulfilling, happier, and more rational life than not living in accordance with Christian morality.
Now, this is an example of a rationalization or retroactive rationale. You didn't arrive at your religious beliefs by some rational process where you noodled out that you would live a better life it you adopted them, therefore you believe.
You're absolutely wrong. My opinion above is based on life experience of human nature, my own life and nature and that of others I've observed.
One can reflect on human nature as one has learned of it over a lifetime and realize that a particular set of rules for living work very well.
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You found the beliefs in your gut, where all religious beliefs come from given that there is no other way to get there.
That isn't true either. I admit that some things I believe I take on faith, but certainly not all.
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That something you believe is may be reasonable doesn't mean that you arrived at it through reason.
It doesn't mean it wasn't either.
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The big choice in life isn't between living a life a life of faith-based action or a life of "rational" action ..... the choice is usually a life in pursuit of pleasure, passion, hedonism, whims.
FWIW, I agree with that as regards to the bottom line on how we end up acting. There are life actions that are positive and constructive and they can be arrived at either via faith or reason.
Wait, that last sentence negates some of the argument you made earlier in your post and agrees with what I said in my post. If you agree there "are life actions that are positive and constructive and they can be arrived at either via faith or reason," you've said that I can have reached some of my beliefs about life actions by reason. |
