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From: bch@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Reasons for Belief
Message-ID: <5384@unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 09:58:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 09:58:51 1983
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>>If religious claims are not subject to scientific or logical testing,
>>how does one decide what to believe?  Evidence might condition the mind
>>to accept one belief over another, but no evidence can be conclusive or,
>>in the final analysis, even relevant.
>>
>>My recommendation is that to evaluate the belief, look at the believer.
>>Look at what the belief has done to his life and decide if you would
>>like that to happen to yours.  If you find a belief system that you
>>think will help you become the person you want to be, try to adopt it.
>>This may not be easy.  You will be fighting years of brainwashing of one
>>sort or another.  But that is all it is.  No belief system has any
>>greater *logical* claim to Truth than any other.

I couldn't agree with this more.   'Nuff said.


				Byron Howes
				UNC - Chapel Hill