Atheists & Agnostics

lindysalsagal

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11. You know, even if they did, it would just be a temporary lower-brain survival mechanism

Sun Mar 11, 2018, 09:34 PM

Mar 2018

and to me, that doesn't constitute true belief, anyway.

I think you have to measure someone's degree of faith over many years: Especially in good times.

For instance, I don't personally believe in evil, even when I'm with nasty, dangerous people. I still see them as broken and afraid, not consumed by some dark force.

I still think some people need to be locked up where they can't hurt anyone else, but that's not because of an evil force: We're animals and some of us are just destructive.

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You know, even if they did, it would just be a temporary lower-brain survival mechanism lindysalsagal Mar 2018 #11