In Reply to: Re: What else & next?? posted by Farmer on November 17, 2009 at 07:48:56:
between the winning slogan and the title of the book I mentioned...They should know, that you use all sorts of "faith" in the real life...trust into something...so the winning slogan is a bit inadequate...
an evangelist used to tell about that...how people use something like that all the time in daily life: trusting the signal/indicator in traffic of someone ahead of you on a curvey stretch, trying to pass that preceding vehicle and you get the sign, that the road is free to pass him/her...trusting also a map or a recipe etc...the examples are countless
...of course that slogan has a double "twist" to it...nevertheless it falls a bit short...for also atheists have to trust..using faith in daily life.
I view that as an attempt to liberate yourself of something seemingly or realistically false and something they chant mantra-like...some "atheistic autogenic training"...auto-suggestive
May be it serves in a community like a marker...outing yourself...with a coming-out T-shirt...
Classical marxist critique was, that religion is opium/drugs for the masses/people.
I don't know of good effects of drugs, but I know of good effects of real faith...(besides the day to day average trusting)...
And Perry, Pascal's wager gives you still the better choice for you have no final knowledge, that you overcame/survived anything until the day you have to leave your body...this life on earth...
I don't believe in a perpetuum mobile..Do you???
Wasn't all here by itself out of nothing...that's poor reasoning....IMO