How do we know that Christians are delusional?
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Loading ...July 22, 2008 by mike
In this short ten-minute video, GIIVideo takes you through the simple “looking in a mirror” technique to understand why everybody is an Atheist with respect to almost all of the gods that have been worshipped throughout time. “Some of us go one god further” – Richard Dawkins.
“When you understand why you reject all other gods, you’ll understand why I reject yours” – Greydon Square.
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You forgot the worst delusion. The delusion that says that a ten minute video would help someone get outside the bubble and become an atheist. This is a delusion as well, don’t you think? And what of those who were once outside the bubble and became religious? They were outside of the bubble as you recommend and yet they believe.
Nice try.
Dear Santos,
Thank you for your comment.
I think you’ve missed the point here and you haven’t actually addressed any of the arguements made in the video, which makes me think that you did not watch it, or did not understand what the video presenter was saying. You need to take another look at the definition of “delusion”.
The whole point of this video is to show that almost everyone is an atheist with respect to all the gods that humanity has ever believed in. To a Christian, the Muslims and Jews are deluded. To a Muslim, the Christians and Jews are deluded. To the Jew, the Muslims and Christians are deluded. And that’s just the three Abrahamic faiths. There are hundreds of thousands of gods that people have historically shed rivers of blood over, I assume you would label them as delusional too? And yet, there is as much rational evidence and reason for believing in those gods as there is for believing in any of the three Abrahamic religions that I mentioned earlier.
What this video does is it shows very clearly that you are able to identify areas of “belief” that are just as valid (or invalid) for other people as they are for yourself.
Regarding those that convert later in life, that’s fine. But it must be said that these adults who convert late believe without evidence or reason to do so and it is usually other reasons (social or family pressure, lack of critical thought, indoctrination or appeals to emotion) that they convert.
I care about those who have been indoctrinated with the religion of their parents but those who have made a pre-considered choice in adulthood to follow a certain idiology or religion I would hope have done so under rational and considered grounds. However I have never heard of a good case for believing in any one particular religion than another, and my background was as an evangelical Christian.
To summarise the whole point of the video again: There is no evidence to favour any religion over any another. They’re all delusions and all religious adherants can see the “bubble of delusion” in the other (false) religion’s followers, but never in their own.
Think about it.
Hi Santos,
I see what you are saying, but in order to understand the video, you have to be open to what it is saying.
To be ‘open’, you will already be hungry for truth even at the expense of your own ideas and beliefs.
Challenging yourself is hard, but if you desire to live life as real as you can, you will challenge yourself and your thought processes.