C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

@fmf said
I will leave it to you to speculate about "if it is true" et.s etc. and then you should act as you see fit based on whatever conclusion you reach.

Do you believe truth affects everyone or only the select few who happen to believe it?

@fmf said
It doesn't matter to me if you think what I believe is an "untruth".

It's up to you to decide what matters to you and it's also up to you to analyse the evidence of truth claims or ignore it.

@dj2becker said
Likewise if it were not true and I believed it was, I would be believing an untruth.

I am unaffected by your claims that what you believe is true. I am similarly unaffected by you worrying about whether what you believe will turn out to be an untruth. You can believe whatever you want.

@dj2becker said
Do you believe truth affects everyone or only the select few who happen to believe it?

I think that religious beliefs based on conjecture about the "truth" stemming from speculation about supernatural causality and divine beings affect only those who happen to believe them.

@dj2becker said
It's up to you to decide what matters to you and it's also up to you to analyse the evidence of truth claims or ignore it.

I don't think I have ignored anything with regard to Christianity. I was a Christian for decades. But, as you know, I no longer subscribe to the "truth claims" that Christians make about Jesus and about themselves.

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I believe it is possible to have some certainty regarding historical events if we consider and analyze all the evidence. I also believe it is possible to ignore or bury evidence and I'm also not accusing anyone of doing that.

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He did. Maybe he's going to brazen it out.

@dj2becker said
I believe it is possible to have some certainty regarding historical events if we consider and analyze all the evidence.

If you have some certainty regarding your God figure based on "all the evidence", why isn't that enough for your faith? Why do you always, always, always return to this feedback loop about "absolute" and "objective" truth?

@fmf said
If you have some certainty regarding your God figure based on "all the evidence", why isn't that enough for your faith? Why do you always, always, always return to this feedback loop about "absolute" and "objective" truth?

When did I say it's not enough for my faith?

@dj2becker said
It's up to you to decide what matters to you and it's also up to you to analyse the evidence of truth claims or ignore it.

Having looked at Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism ~ to varying degrees and for different amounts of time ~ I am a non-believer when it comes to these religions.

@dj2becker said
When did I say it's not enough for my faith?

It is my observation based on your behaviour.

This riff, which sometimes seems as if it is the only thing you have wanted to talk about, has been brought up by you over and over and over again for 3-4 years.

I deduce that your faith is brittle and you are resorting to rhetorical gimmicks as a kind of arid, joyless, online assertiveness.

If your faith were stronger, you would surely talk about Jesus' life and teaching, no? Instead, you are constantly stuck in a pool of interpersonal/intellectual quicksand of your own making.

I conclude that the certainty you claim to have regarding your God figure - based on "all the evidence" - simply isn't that enough for your faith.

You seem to need your Christian footprint here in this community to be bolstered by gimmicks and not much else.