Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!unc!bch 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 Article-I.D.: unc.5384 Posted: Wed Jun 15 09:58:51 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 16:27:34 EDT References: cca.4873 Lines: 18 >>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