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Originally Posted by DanishDynamite
Thanks, votetheoneyouhatetheleast. And I mean that.
The thing is though that I don't have any particular beliefs. I just have rationality.
I don't understand what you mean by "believing" in science. I trust in the scientific method. Afterall I can test it myself anytime I want. Is that what you mean?
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True to an extent.
Technically nothing can be proved 100% but that's not the point. (for one thing people interpret info and people are imperfect, what we
know now we might not
know later)
The point maybe I'm getting at is that you're probably right, but as someone rational (perhaps more so than most) you have to take into account that you are trying to change peoples opinions. There's no other logical reason to make this thread. To change peoples opinions you have to "play ball". If you tell people "your religion is bulls**t" they wont listen. you have to sympathize with them and win their trust. If they trust you they'll trust your opinion. If you try to crush what they hold dearest to them, they will reject you outright. And actively resist you on principal.
Don't know about you, but my opinion on religion was formed over my entire life, not someone saying "you're wrong" and me saying "yeah, now you mention it you're right"
As people who think independently and don't just go with what other
people say is right or wrong, if we want other people to understand, we have to rise above the same kind of rhetoric. We wont archive understanding if we directly resist a life time of conditioning and a strong desire/need to believe, instead of trying to understand and make it easy for their transition, and offer an attractive alternative.