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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (18195)	7/14/2001 9:20:04 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No matter how deeply you think, you get back to a place where all you can say is "this I believe because I believe it." The question is what you do when you get back to that place. Do you examine that belief, try to determine where it came from, and decide if it really is the belief that you ought to hold? Do you consider the possibility of changing it? Or do you pretend that it is some sort of revealed truth, and that anybody who doesn't share it is evil? And your implication that religious people haven't thought about what they believe every bit as much as you have thought about what you believe is just arrogant ignorance. They have. If they have thought about it as much as I have, and still com to the conclusion that what they believe is "right" not just for them, but for everybody else, I wouldn't want to imagine their thought processes. That is true arrogance. I'm not asking any religious person to stop believing what they believe. I don't want them to start believing what I believe. I want them to admit that they could be wrong, and I want them to admit that their beliefs are simply their beliefs, and are no more inherently true than anybody else's. For some reason none of them seem willing to take this small step. You ought to ditch that ad hominem stuff. It's unbecoming, unless it's funny.