Tuesday, October 12, 2010

RESPECT THE BELIEVER NOT THE BELIEF.

What kind of world we would have if everybody went around respecting each other's views? What if everybody had decided to respect "Hitler's beliefs" concerning the extermination of the Jews? There wuld be no Jews left. Or maybe if the slave abolitionists had respected the slave owners "beliefs" in owning slaves? There would surely be so many slaves around today. My point is this, everybody and everyone is entitled to his/her beliefs, but not every belief is entitled to my "respect".  I honestly do not get how people can get by in this world perfectly fine without knowing anything. 

Ask the average born again christian or muslim about how they came to trust somuch in their faith, they'll probably start by saying "If you know what God/Allah/Jesus has done for me you would understand why I believe in him somuch", now this is all fair and all but try getting them to share what God did for them and they will narrate a story of how they were in desperate strides and a miracle happened and something good happened to them, the 'something good' that happened is now translated as coming from "God". 
First, this style of argument is an informal fallacy and it falls under False Cause Fallacy. 


Christians "illegitimately assume that one possible cause of a phenomenon is the cause although reasons are lacking for excluding other possible causes" and they do this time and time again, you get a new promotion at work, you get an A on a test, you get a new car you and attribute all this good things to God when it could possibly be other things or even other "supernatural beings" like the devil doing all this good things for you.  A whole lot of us commit informal fallacies almost everytime when trying to prove why something good has happened to us, we immediately assume that it must be God responsible for the good in our lives, but we never attribute the bad things to God, we prefer to blame that on the devil but the almighty never gets any blame.

Now to be fair to both sides, when you meet an atheist who tries to say "God does not exist because he cannot be seen", then that also is a fallacy. Just because you cannot see God, does not mean that he does not exist. 

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