Sunday, May 17, 2009

Believing Others

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name. ...
bible.cc/john/20-31.htm

I've always believed that the essence of atheism is an utter disbelief in the experiences of others. Quite simply, if I were to tell him I'd seen a demon or even an angel, he'd prefer to believe me deluded or ignorant. So much of believing in a thing is trusting the experiences of our fellow humans...especially those incidents we ourselves have never been lucky or unlucky enough to experiences.

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