Posted: Jul 25, 2010 6:24 am
Redial wrote:reddix wrote:Is it possible for something to be logically consistent and still be wrong?
Yes. like there was this one time that this guy made this big speech about how he wanted to kill himself because this world is just a state of existence between non-existence and whatever, anyway it made heaps of sense and then he did actually kill himself (he was a bit crazy) and it didn't make as much sense after that...
Well, belief in an after-life, or in a state between existence and non-existence, is the same as all religious beliefs. They don't involve much if any logic. If they would, it wouldn't be called faith. It's adherents only believe that their faith is logical and true because it was what they were fed from early childhood. They are easily convinced by otherwise illogical arguments, like the ontological one. They listen to a man like William Lane Craig and many think he's smart and speaks the truth, because they've been brought up to think different. Logic works differently for theist.