tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post194946996569857468..comments2023-10-09T04:11:47.358-07:00Comments on Not A Potted Plant: Making Ignorant ChoicesBurt Likkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-78943539703487081362010-01-08T06:42:07.878-08:002010-01-08T06:42:07.878-08:00Seeing both comments attracts me to make a concess...Seeing both comments attracts me to make a concession that comparative religious chart-making may be more common that I wrote -- but it still seems to me that even if a chart is made, it is not really <i>used</i> in the "choice" of one's own religion. Will's story is an example of peer pressure to conform trumping a desire to be true to one's own feelings or an economic decision about lifestyle tradeoffs.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-76857198745670682082010-01-08T03:53:48.488-08:002010-01-08T03:53:48.488-08:00I'm surprised that you would say no one makes ...I'm surprised that you would say no one makes such a chart. I thought it was pretty common among people raised religiously, in their teen years, to try doing this sort of thing.<br /><br />In any case, the evidence for not only god, but all the attached concepts such as immortal souls and an afterlife, are so unlikely that none of the religions, nor any religion that has exist before, is worthy of any time whatsoever. The whole entire worldview is so wrong as to be ludicrous. <br /><br />Weighting the evidence is crucuially important, and when all the evidence is garbage, it is vital to realize this and treat it appropriately.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04700560228027590511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-73633749231138219632010-01-07T23:19:19.723-08:002010-01-07T23:19:19.723-08:00Let me address this rhetrocial question to Christi...<i>Let me address this rhetrocial question to Christian Readers in the UK, USA, and Canada: how many of you took a comparative religion class and learned about Hinduism before you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and savior? </i><br /><br />I did, sort of. World religion was taught in, of all places, Sunday School. Of course, Episcopalians are atypical.<br /><br />I agree with just about everything you have to say except that I think you undersell the social aspect of religious choice. Not just in terms of what the country as a whole thinks, but also what the people most important to me think. I have a strong attraction to Gnosticism and every time I take that religious quiz I come up with Bahaii, but there's no way I'm converting to either of them unless they meet a standard of proof or certainty that's nearly impossible.<br /><br />If I choose Christianity and I'm wrong, oh well I'm wrong (wouldn't be the first time). If I choose some outworldly religion and I'm wrong, I will have alienated my family and departed from family tradition for a lie. That trumps a great deal of what's in the scripture.trumwillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03156143676616919381noreply@blogger.com