That last example is interesting, because I would break it down like this -
- people believing you're evil because you're bisexual is a form of other people disrespecting your beliefs and lifestyle and deciding that you are wrong and they are right, and I would say that disrespect and judgment are at the root of that, rather than religion
whereas, unless it is used to dictate how things are taught in school or some other matter of public interest a simple belief in an entity that someone can't prove is fairly innocuous and doesn't really hurt anybody in and of itself.
And - I would add - by the dictates of philosophy where you throw out all assumptions including whether and how much one can trust one's senses - you can't prove anything exists. Maybe your own consciousness and even that is on shaky grounds.
For the practical purposes of day to day life we must assume that certain things are provable but absolute proof of anything? You can measure things with instruments, but then you have to prove that the instruments exist.
Hell, I'm such an agnostic, I'm not even sure if I believe in doubt.
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Date: 2009-02-10 05:19 am (UTC)- people believing you're evil because you're bisexual is a form of other people disrespecting your beliefs and lifestyle and deciding that you are wrong and they are right, and I would say that disrespect and judgment are at the root of that, rather than religion
whereas, unless it is used to dictate how things are taught in school or some other matter of public interest a simple belief in an entity that someone can't prove is fairly innocuous and doesn't really hurt anybody in and of itself.
And - I would add - by the dictates of philosophy where you throw out all assumptions including whether and how much one can trust one's senses - you can't prove anything exists. Maybe your own consciousness and even that is on shaky grounds.
For the practical purposes of day to day life we must assume that certain things are provable but absolute proof of anything? You can measure things with instruments, but then you have to prove that the instruments exist.
Hell, I'm such an agnostic, I'm not even sure if I believe in doubt.