thread: 2011-07-11 : Hooray for Religion
On 2011-07-13, David Berg wrote:
What I was asking with the elevator is, absent a belief in a No Elevators contract with God, what are the remaining factors determining whether you use the elevator or not.
"Use it because I'm tired and sore and don't want to walk up the stairs," seems the most obvious one to me. "Use it out of curiosity," could happen, I guess.
"Not use it out of habit," is probably a good place to look in the whole belief/practice/culture discussion. I wonder how prevalent that is? That someone really doesn't believe there will be any adverse consequences for using that nice knee-saving elevator, but doesn't use it anyway, because they're used to not using it.
And when it comes to actual instances of religious practice, the difference between opinion and illogical belief is irrelevant, in this case because the effects of the believed disapproval on our lives are verifiable in each instance.
Luke, how is, "I just broke my contract with God, He must be upset with me," verifiable? What's to keep that from becoming rather, "or maybe I didn't / maybe He's not" or just not thinking about it at all?
