The Fallacy of Faith
I, as an atheist, change the word ‘faith’ to ‘hope’. As an atheist I accept that the world is the way it is, and I would highly prefer it be different in some cases, so I seek satisfaction, my life’s purpose, in trying to effect change in some way.
What the hell is intuition? ‘Intuition relies on evolutionary older, automatic, unconscious, and fast mental processing, primarily to save our brains time or energy. It also is prone to make mistakes, such as cognitive biases.’ — (psychology today) To say that I intuitively know something to be true is to fail to ask for the evidence for my beliefs. — (rebt network) Religion programs our intuition to assume we are not good enough and only religion will save us. Atheism deprograms our intuition and says the situation is not optimum so I had better work at dealing with it which includes ignoring it, such as a lifetime disability for instance. I hope my stroke affected arm gets better so I will do my prescribed exercises then ignore it so I can seek satisfaction using other strategies. Better than having faith that god will heal me.
This is the ‘The Age of Atheism’, I like that.
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