return2ozma@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 months agoWhy in 2024 do people still believe in religion? (serious)message-squaremessage-square436fedilinkarrow-up1338arrow-down174
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minus-squareCommunist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoNo neither do astrophysicists, they think it might be true with healthy skepticism or they have proven it true with observation, neither of which applies to religion are you confident you’re not the arrogant one?
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·5 months agoI’m making no claims of the unknown, other than defending the possibility of something that cannot be proven or disproven to exist. You’re openly discrediting the beliefs of others through your own understanding. What sounds more arrogant to you?
minus-squareCommunist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoI never denied the possibility, I denied we should believe in those things it sounds incredibly arrogant to me to assume you know something without evidence
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·5 months agoArrogance comes into play when one person asserts their beliefs over another’s. They weren’t stating that you should believe in god. You were stating that they shouldn’t.
minus-squareCommunist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agoYes, they shouldn’t because they have no evidence and are therefore arrogantly asserting something they have no reason to believe
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·5 months agoYou see someone holding a belief you don’t agree with as arrogant, but not your unwanted criticism of it? Forget arrogance. You may be a narcissist.
minus-squareCommunist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoYes, belief without evidence is peak narcissism in my eyes it is the definition of delusion
No neither do astrophysicists, they think it might be true with healthy skepticism
or they have proven it true with observation, neither of which applies to religion
are you confident you’re not the arrogant one?
I’m making no claims of the unknown, other than defending the possibility of something that cannot be proven or disproven to exist. You’re openly discrediting the beliefs of others through your own understanding. What sounds more arrogant to you?
I never denied the possibility, I denied we should believe in those things
it sounds incredibly arrogant to me to assume you know something without evidence
Arrogance comes into play when one person asserts their beliefs over another’s.
They weren’t stating that you should believe in god.
You were stating that they shouldn’t.
Yes, they shouldn’t because they have no evidence and are therefore arrogantly asserting something they have no reason to believe
You see someone holding a belief you don’t agree with as arrogant, but not your unwanted criticism of it? Forget arrogance. You may be a narcissist.
Yes, belief without evidence is peak narcissism in my eyes
it is the definition of delusion