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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (14746)	1/29/2003 1:28:25 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

While there is no logic that absolutely proves dogma is true, neither is there absolute proof that dogma is wrong. If I say there is a tree god that comes out at night to lick people's toes and so we must all pay respect to him, the burden of proof would be on my shoulders, not those who call me nuts. In similar vein, when this person claims there is life after death and that souls are "recycled", his belief is dogma until he can provide proof. This represents the Great Divide between those who exist to understand based upon what we learn and those who understand and populate all they see into their framework. I cannot NOT agree with that. There are believers and non-believers, in a ratio of about 4:1 That does not mean they are right, or even that they are the more intelligent/sensitive/etc among us. The majority can very well be horribly wrong. Case in point: The witch hunts of the Dark Ages, that cost tens of thousands of people their lives. Everybody believed in witches. If you shelter that in a belief system that is internally consistent ("God works in mysterious ways") then there is no means to debunk this. I know (from hard experience). Self-delusion is a fascinating phenomenon.