The biggest problem I have with the fanatically religious is their tendency to believe that everyone must believe and live the way they do. I call it the “One True Way” hypothesis.
You saying “We’re better off not believing” sounds to me like another version of this—you want all people to abandon all beliefs in Deity, and believe the way you have chosen to believe.
I don’t think that we need to abandon belief, I think we need to abandon the idea that one religion is better than others. Just as any one particular, dogmatic, and detailed description of how a marriage should work will actively help some people, be ok for some people, and actively harm others, insisting that people follow any one religious belief (including atheism, which is an active belief about the existence and nature of God—atheists express a firm faith in the unprovable assumption that there is no God) will cause benefit for some and harm for some.
Mind you, I support your right to believe there is no God, I just think that it is logically as unprovable as my belief in Deity, given the evidence we have available today.
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You saying “We’re better off not believing” sounds to me like another version of this—you want all people to abandon all beliefs in Deity, and believe the way you have chosen to believe.
I don’t think that we need to abandon belief, I think we need to abandon the idea that one religion is better than others. Just as any one particular, dogmatic, and detailed description of how a marriage should work will actively help some people, be ok for some people, and actively harm others, insisting that people follow any one religious belief (including atheism, which is an active belief about the existence and nature of God—atheists express a firm faith in the unprovable assumption that there is no God) will cause benefit for some and harm for some.
Mind you, I support your right to believe there is no God, I just think that it is logically as unprovable as my belief in Deity, given the evidence we have available today.