That’s where I think the analogy falls apart dramatically. It’s the difference between “potentially kinda rare, sadly” and “non-existent and a signal of likely mental illness.”
Plenty of people can point to a beautiful sunrise and say “See? There’s your evidence that God exists.” And of course, you’d try to point them to genocide in Sudan, and they’d ignore you.
This is why I can’t discredit faith, but I still do my best to point out how organizational religion has always exploited people. Not that all of it is bad. But there needs to be better safeguards for people to have the opportunity to find or reject faith for themselves, and instead it’s mostly indoctrination.
The term “faith” made a lot more sense to me once I thought of believing in the goodness of other people like a faith.
You have no logic saying it’s there, even get disproved often. But you keep believing in it in spite of the absence of evidence.
So you’ve NEVER seen evidence of human goodness?
That’s where I think the analogy falls apart dramatically. It’s the difference between “potentially kinda rare, sadly” and “non-existent and a signal of likely mental illness.”
Plenty of people can point to a beautiful sunrise and say “See? There’s your evidence that God exists.” And of course, you’d try to point them to genocide in Sudan, and they’d ignore you.
It becomes much the same issue.
But a sunrise doesn’t prove God exists. Seeing humans be kind certainly suggests human kindness exists. It’s another dumb analogy.
This is why I can’t discredit faith, but I still do my best to point out how organizational religion has always exploited people. Not that all of it is bad. But there needs to be better safeguards for people to have the opportunity to find or reject faith for themselves, and instead it’s mostly indoctrination.
You need more culture, art and music in your live… But not the big corporations soul-less stuff, the good stuff, the real stuff