“Take the belief in evolution.”
For how much? I’ll take ‘belief in evolution’ for $500, Alex.
“Most people who believe in evolution do so because they were told that it is scientific fact.”
Do you have any numbers to support this impression of yours?
Because what I remember from school is that they said ‘this happened’ and the rest of the chapter was ‘and this is how we figured that out.’ So, I was not TOLD it was a fact, i was shown that it was science.
“People have a bad habit of believing what others tell them instead of searching for the truth.”
Which is why you and everyone else can’t teach their superstition as fact in schools.
“Be careful what others tell you.”
Okay, I am officially leery of what you’re putting out.
“I’ll give you an example. Most psych textbooks and psych professors will talk about the placebo effect and how powerful it is. Study after study has been done on this phenomena and in most cases the placebo works just as well or better than the treatment, simply because the people involved believe they are receiving the treatment.”
It’s a bit more complicated than that. But, yes, we can alleviate some symptoms, but it doesn’t change their blood count or heal a broken bone.
“Most Christians will tell you that once we find Jesus/Yeshua/Jehovah/Yahweh/God it is like we had just been told we had been given a placebo all our lives.”
I have never, ever heard a CHristain phrase it like this. Where DO you get these ‘most’ statistics?
“We were instantly awakened to the truth and left with a feeling of awe that we had actually been duped into believing all the things we had been indoctrinated with since kindergarten.”
Weird how most people are taught their religion from birth and grow up into it, and you’re describing your faith as a ‘road to Damascus’ thing.
“That is just one way that I believe Jesus restores sight to the blind.”
So…metaphoric sight to the metaphorically blind.
Yeah, that’s stupid.