Haha! Who doesn't need to rethink his/her views every now and then? It's good for you! Especially for me. I do it every three weeks. So you don't have to "regret" to tell me. But your first sentence makes it sound like you think I'm very dense, but honestly I had no idea why exactly you are Catholic and why you feel drawn to atheism.
I don't think there's really evidence. I don't think that eyewitness accounts are the most reliable -- I know they're very important, but I also know that people of plenty of other religions would claim to have experienced the divine firsthand. I wouldn't know whom to believe. Of course I don't have the experience with historical documents that you do, so I can't really judge any more on that.
The reason I say that religious beliefs shouldn't have anything to do with evidence is because, if a divinity does exist, he could have fucked with someone's head or with the evidence any way he wanted (I don't believe anyone did, but I couldn't prove that -- he is supernatural).
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Date: 2008-04-14 08:19 pm (UTC)I don't think there's really evidence. I don't think that eyewitness accounts are the most reliable -- I know they're very important, but I also know that people of plenty of other religions would claim to have experienced the divine firsthand. I wouldn't know whom to believe. Of course I don't have the experience with historical documents that you do, so I can't really judge any more on that.
The reason I say that religious beliefs shouldn't have anything to do with evidence is because, if a divinity does exist, he could have fucked with someone's head or with the evidence any way he wanted (I don't believe anyone did, but I couldn't prove that -- he is supernatural).