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Thread: What's your religion?
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08-14-2010, 11:14 AM #681“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Nietzsche
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08-14-2010, 11:27 AM #682
Disbelief and the Suspension of Disbelief
Why can't we have our cake and eat it too?
Why can't we disbelieve and suspend our disbelief?
It's plain some disbelieve and some suspend their disbelief. And as nothing human is foreign to us, why don't we have both.
Of course some will say it is not logical to do both. And this is true if we try to do both at once, for not only is it illogical, it is impossible. However it is possible to do both at different times and in different places.
There are those who will swear by disbelief and swear they are atheists, and yet think nothing of suspending their disbelief in a movie theatre.
And so we only have to move across the road to a church, synagogue, mosque or temple and suspend our disbelief there. After all, it is only a change of venue but the suspension of disbelief is exactly the same as in the movie theatre.
So it seems odd to me that atheists refuse to suspend their disbelief in a house of worship but will suspend their disbelief in a movie theatre. It seems like special pleading. It's unseemly.
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08-14-2010, 11:46 AM #683
actually Atheists treat movies and religion as the same thing: Fiction.
Not really any special pleading needed.“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Nietzsche
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08-14-2010, 11:54 AM #684
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08-14-2010, 12:05 PM #685
The essential differance is that in a movie you suspend your disbelief about something to allow it to be accepted as part of the story. In church, you would have to suspend your disbelief in order to accept something as part of reality, which is a different feat altogether.
Don't make whine out of sour grapes.
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08-14-2010, 12:06 PM #686
Because fiction that tries to convince you that it is not fiction gets really tiresome. Also if one is interested in learning about the religion then a house of worship is a terrible place to go to do research.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Nietzsche
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08-14-2010, 12:44 PM #687
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08-14-2010, 12:51 PM #688
Yeah I have. Last I checked they weren't solely religious. And since they are primarily analogies, they are usually fictitious.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Nietzsche
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08-14-2010, 12:54 PM #689RivaGuest
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08-14-2010, 01:05 PM #690SnifflesGuest
They're fictitious but still convey a moral truth. So whether Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, or the prodigal son really did squander his family inheritance is quite irrelevant. Not to mention there are distinctions between the historical books like Maccabees or Kings I&II(to give two examples) and say the Book of Job or Proverbs. It's been argued that the Bible as well as other ancient texts don't necessarily fall into modern categories of fiction or non-fiction; but might constitute an entirely different genre called "Faction".