EVERYONE thinks their beliefs are best or they would believe something else...
No one says, ‘here’s my opinion and I don’t believe what I’m saying’
Great point and true!!!
Someone better inform Jesus.
The only absolute I believe in is that I absolutely have the right to change my mind when presented with new and better evidence or a better argument.
Faith is fine, faith is wonderful, but you have no right to expect someone else to accept anything on the basis of YOUR faith, nor judge them for not doing so.
So the most I will ever say, on subjects besides those known only by faith, is : “ This is my opinion based on the facts as I currently understand them and here is the structure of my reasoning utilizing those facts.”
The article avers that there are degrees of intensity of belief.
Thus, one can hold a tentative belief (e.g., "The U.S. will be the first nation to establish a permanent base on the Moon.") - and be fairly open to counterarguments.
One can also be relatively convinced of something ("In the U.S., there is a greater degree of economic and political freedom than in, say, Turkey.") - which belief one would abandon only in the face of very convincing arguments.
And then there are beliefs for which one would be willing to die, if necessary.
Do you dispute that?
Regards,
So based on this silly article, every time everyone arrives at a conclusion about what they believe, they should immediately abandon it and look for something else to believe in. Which is what lefties do since they have no truth larger than themselves, and no moral authority or absolute truth or reality beyond thier own tiny minds. They float from cause to cause and take up each one with utter fanatacism until the next one appears. They are void of basic faith in God or morality or actual scientific fact (like DNA).
The article elevates lefty mental salad to superiority and denigrates people who have basic, traditional belief systems or world views. Not that the latter are always right (there are kooks everywhere), but absent some kind of intellectual rigor and discipline, the result is the chaotic, jumbled, ever-morphing cult fads of the left.
“EVERYONE thinks their beliefs are best or they would believe something else...
No one says, ‘here’s my opinion and I don’t believe what I’m saying’”
Exactly. What a moronic headline,.. and it is self contradictory. The obvious conclusion is nobody knows anything, every belief system is as good as any other.