Another masterpiece, especially: "Persuasion in the matter of belief isn’t a problem. Compulsion is. And the frequency of compulsion is almost argument enough against the whole idea of belief as a basis for human organization and behavior." Or as Holmes wrote: "When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas..." I would add that the antidote to paralysis by analysis is not so much belief as...action.
To me I see belief as based upon the point that you give up asking questions. For non believers like myself I see the issue of God as no more convincing than the notion that hydrogen coalesced into ever larger molecules as gravity pushed matter together. I also accept that we just don’t know.
“The less you know the more you believe.” - U2 (from the song the last night on earth)
Another masterpiece, especially: "Persuasion in the matter of belief isn’t a problem. Compulsion is. And the frequency of compulsion is almost argument enough against the whole idea of belief as a basis for human organization and behavior." Or as Holmes wrote: "When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas..." I would add that the antidote to paralysis by analysis is not so much belief as...action.
To me I see belief as based upon the point that you give up asking questions. For non believers like myself I see the issue of God as no more convincing than the notion that hydrogen coalesced into ever larger molecules as gravity pushed matter together. I also accept that we just don’t know.