Some thoughts on openminded, and flawed logic.
You must have a knowledge of an entity in order to be able to write anything about the entity.
Example, “Can you write a book about your father?”
“Yes? That is because you have a knowledge of your father, that is why you can write a book about him”.
“Therefore the people that wrote the Bible had to know their God, because or else they wouldn’t be able to write about it.”
Now this kind of logic is heavily flawed.
If we have to follow this logic, because someone could think of Superman, Spiderman, Hercules, and other mythological creatures they must have known about these creatures or else they would not be able to write about them.
I think it is a major underestimation of the human imagination we are able to exaggerate certain aspects of our lives, so the concepts of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being is not that hard to think of. All that is required is that you think of a being that is able to do everything.
For example a first cause being, ignoring all the questions that might be related to the fact about how can a complex and such powerful creature or entity come out of nothing?
It always existed? Okay, but why is it more plausible than the Universe being here always, and also the first cause, because of the natural laws of the universe, the laws that we are aware of, while we search for the M-theory?
Sometimes it makes me sad, that theists seem to fail to understand simple logic, or the flaws of their arguments, but it also makes me wonder, how many of these people are actually lying, and not complete idiots?
I mean, many theists are easy prey for various schemes that could lure money for various products.
That is why skeptical thinking is such a useful tool in your life, that you can use daily to evaluate if a claim is likely to be true.
Many have accused me of not being open minded because I do not take all claims at face value, just because I do not let anything enter my brain without first sceptically weighing the evidence of its validity.
All claims has an equal chance at trying to get through the filter that I have put up, does that make me completely close minded? No, I would consider me an open minded sceptic but with a filter that stops bullshit from clogging up my brain.
Please share your thoughts.
Romanian witches no longer allowed to cheat.
I do not know whethere to laugh or to cry. Romania has proposed a law that will make it illegal for witches to make false predictions. In other hands they will be held accountable for their predictions of the future.
It is both fun and sad that a government has to make a law about woo-woo as if it was real, or at least some of it. If the law passes and it makes them accountable for the failed predictions and fortune tellings, I wonder if it will have an impact on the superstition that flourishes in Romania.
As a sidenote, all the donations has to be registered as a tax income. So being a witch is a legit job. Hehe.
Crazy Religious Moments of February
In latest funny and slightly crazy news, is that here in Denmark, a bishop has forbidden the local priest at the church of Sthen in Snekkersten.
Since 2009, priest Kirsten Knutzen has baptised 80 dolls and teddy bears at sermons for children at the ages one to six.
She told the press that she is aware that she is not making a blasphemic ritual, but she puts the ritual as close as possible to the actual ritual she uses her own words.
The Bishop Lise-Lotte Rebel of the Helsingør Congregations put an end to it. With the message that the People’s Lutheran Church of Denmark does not baptise objects.
In my honest opinion, I think it is an effective way of pulling children into the religion, but on the other hand, it also undermines the religion, by making fun of it. How can you tell a fake baptism apart from a real one?
May 2011 they had planned baptism and wedding for the teddy bear couple at Church of Sthen.
In Indonesia, a man was sentenced 5 years for blasphemy, a Christian man who insulted Islam.
I am not sure what he did, if I would consider it insulting, but hey I also think it would be as bad as insulting someone who though they were herding invisible unicorns.
But it wasn’t the sentence that I thought was the most absurd part, no no no..
The absurd part is that the local muslims wanted him killed, and they processed to burn local christian churches.
Horray for the religion of peace, both of them.
Sigh.
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