Religion
In reply to the discussion: Christians; how do you regard Hinduism? [View all]edhopper
(33,995 posts)isn't intellectual, it's feeling and emotion.
It's not that they don't think about their faith, but the "feeling of knowing" is not a rational thing.
I am presenting them with the premiss that if "feeling of knowing" can be shown to be wrong in others faiths, why not their own.
It is easier to just consider their own faith. And they correlate what I ask with intolerance of other faiths.
Granted some have acknowledged that they accept that "feeling of knowing" can be wrong, but they wish to follow it because they have no way of saying either way. And they are just trying to follow something that isn't rationally knowable anyway.
There is a very powerful emotional part of the psyche at work.
My take from my atheist perspective, granted stated a little simplistically.