I think that’s the bottom line. We cannot prove who’s right and who’s wrong. So we really can not impose one set of standards for all. That will ultimately result in conflict. Sometimes solvable, sometimes not.
SallyMae wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:48 pm Momto2boys973, thank you for discussing this with me because it's an important point.
I am not claiming that your beliefs are false. I am saying that they can't be proved. They could be wrong, at least in some of the details. There is no way to establish that they are 'righter' than the supernatural beliefs of others.
That doesn't mean we have no facts at all. Plenty of stuff can be proven and established. More than enough material, I would suggest, upon which to make geopolitical decisions about who lives and who dies.
How much more unresolvable conflict should we have for supernatural claims that *could* be wrong?
Momto2boys973 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:23 pm Well, maybe I misunderstood, but you seem to claim that all those beliefs are “supernatural” and therefore false. That the only reality is what we can physically see. So those beliefs should be ignored because they can’t be proven as true.
But thing is, you can’t also prove them wrong. You said that if something can “just as well be easily wrong” then it falls into failing standards of reason.
Well, you could just as well be easily wrong too...