JimsSweaterVest
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While we anxiously endure the long wait until football starts again, I thought I'd make a thread to put up questions and thoughts on religion, since it is a topic that interests me. Some of my ideas may be unorthodox, but my intent is not to offend. I just like having good arguments and being challenged to think.
Mods, if this thread is out of place, please tell me and I will move it to the right board. Thanks.
1. The neuroscientist Sam Harris said in a Caltech lecture, and I'm paraphrasing here: "If you believe that saying a few lines in Latin over your breakfast cereal transforms your Lucky Charms into the body of Julius Ceasar, everyone will think you're crazy. But if you believe doing the same over a wafer on Sunday turns it into the body of Jesus, you're almost certainly completely sane and intelligent, but almost certainly Catholic."
Is there a cognitive dissonance here? How does one choose to believe one proposition but ridicule the other?
I myself was raised Catholic, and I'm still trying to answer this one for myself.
Mods, if this thread is out of place, please tell me and I will move it to the right board. Thanks.
1. The neuroscientist Sam Harris said in a Caltech lecture, and I'm paraphrasing here: "If you believe that saying a few lines in Latin over your breakfast cereal transforms your Lucky Charms into the body of Julius Ceasar, everyone will think you're crazy. But if you believe doing the same over a wafer on Sunday turns it into the body of Jesus, you're almost certainly completely sane and intelligent, but almost certainly Catholic."
Is there a cognitive dissonance here? How does one choose to believe one proposition but ridicule the other?
I myself was raised Catholic, and I'm still trying to answer this one for myself.