Posted: Dec 11, 2014 6:26 am
carl wrote:Matthew Shute wrote:Carl makes scepticism sound like some weird aberration, as if there's something suspect about actively weeding out errors. How else are we to reduce the likelihood of falling into delusion?
Say what?
I don't make skepticism out to be weird, nor do I discourage actively weeding our errors - in fact I encourage it.
I suspect you simply scanned the OP without understanding the point, which is, that the entirety of humanity, no matter how rational we may think and claim we are, we have background emotional issues, and often fairly substantial ones, which steer the course of our personal philosophies, whether it be theism, atheism, or...
I hope you're not claiming your personal philosophy and position, whatever it may be, came about solely on rational grounds.
That would be a false front indeed.
Atheism isn't a philosophy.
And rational skeptics always try to eliminate emotion from their 'personal philosophies'.
Except when the topic is personal emotions of course.