drdrfor wrote:Ultimately we all choose to believe or choose to disbelieve.
I disagree. When did you "choose" to disbelieve in Santa Claus? Can you "choose" to begin believing in him again? Why or why not?
Or rather, we sift and sort through facts to find the ones that appeal to us.
Speak for yourself.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
drdrfor wrote:Ultimately we all choose to believe or choose to disbelieve.
I disagree. When did you "choose" to disbelieve in Santa Claus? Can you "choose" to begin believing in him again? Why or why not?
Or rather, we sift and sort through facts to find the ones that appeal to us.
Speak for yourself.
Well, maybe my choice of the word "choose" was misplaced. Seeing as how I don't believe in "free choice" I'll rephrase my wording. We make decisions based on our prejudices, some societal, some parental, some from the jumbled collections of conclusions we have collected in our synapses.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when overwhelmed by pressure from older brother, fellow pre-schoolers, and certain observations of how requests to SC went unanswered. Come to think of it, those are the same reasons I stopped believing in God.
Could I, or would I re-establish a belief in Santa? I could decide to become insane.