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Originally Posted by mentor
What you say is true, but it will be interpreted by some as saying that reason as a belief system has no advantage over other belief systems. This is not the case. Human belief falls on a continuum with fiction on one end and fact on the other. Rationalism falls closer to fact than any other belief system. It is simply a better approximation of reality.
We all have to have beliefs, even atheists as you pointed out. There are differences in the quality of belief systems and it is based on how we support and justify them.
W.C Fields said "Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink!"
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I agree. What I am arguing against is not the rationalist school or religion, its the thought process, the logic, that some use to justify the superiority of their belief structure over another's. I don't care what it is, you could worship giant carrots. It is also the lack of respect that I sense, which really irritates me. Since it is simultaneously a lack of respect for our history and cultural development, as humble as those origins maybe.
I like the quote btw... when one believes himself to know absolute truth over his fellow man, he becomes a tyrant, and that nature of true evil in this world.