Ah, so a person is not justified in thinking something in the absence of evidence that satisfies you, even if it's a personal belief. You're taking an absurd reductionist approach to human behavior and how the behavior of others impacts yourself.
Your cute examples in quotations are the typical strawmen trotted out to justify why everyone should be a fanboy of Richard Dawkins. Because surely every spiritual person in the world denies the demonstrated effectiveness of medicine. Surely considering concepts for which evidence may be subjective means that one will advocate policies that dramatically impact others for subjective reasons, such as sending people to prison just because one feels like it.
Granted, it's a bangdead easy strawman to fall back on. No shortage of people who impose their will on others in the world using excuses such as religion.
There's a reason why a lot of very reasonable people who practice nothing that negatively impacts others see atheists and crusaders for "rationalism" as complete assholes. In your effort to "wake people up" about all their naughty, horrible, irrational perspectives on existence, you are committing the same violence, even if on a philosophical level, that you pretend to oppose. The door swings both ways.
Ah, so a person is not justified in thinking something in the absence of evidence that satisfies you, even if it's a personal belief. You're taking an absurd reductionist approach to human behavior and how the behavior of others impacts yourself.
Your cute examples in quotations are the typical strawmen trotted out to justify why everyone should be a fanboy of Richard Dawkins. Because surely every spiritual person in the world denies the demonstrated effectiveness of medicine. Surely considering concepts for which evidence may be subjective means that one will advocate policies that dramatically impact others for subjective reasons, such as sending people to prison just because one feels like it.
Granted, it's a bangdead easy strawman to fall back on. No shortage of people who impose their will on others in the world using excuses such as religion.
There's a reason why a lot of very reasonable people who practice nothing that negatively impacts others see atheists and crusaders for "rationalism" as complete assholes. In your effort to "wake people up" about all their naughty, horrible, irrational perspectives on existence, you are committing the same violence, even if on a philosophical level, that you pretend to oppose. The door swings both ways.