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Originally Posted by Letum

"The bible is true because it says it is true. If the bible always tells the truth, then when it says it is true it must be so"

This is nice example of a logic loop and there for an example of faulty reasoning. I'm sure you are intelligent enough to see the problems with that quote.

I realise that there is a problem getting into that loop from the outside, but if God were provable by logic then there would be no atheists. You cannot prove or disprove the existence of God by logic alone, so I don't see the 'logic loop', as you put it, as a problem. The way into the loop (as I see it) is to read the Bible and think about what it means. If you find enough evidence that it's true then you're into the loop.

Do you think it is rational to live your life according to individual details and dogmas in a book without subjecting such dogmas to your own free and critical thought? Even if you believe that book to be written by a god.

Yes, I do. If God, being infinitely greater than I, wrote the book then who am I to argue? If I find a problem with something in the Bible it is my opinion that must change. I have no right to tell God that he's wrong and carry on as I did before.

Originally Posted by Fish

Well, I guess 90 % (or perhaps more) will stick to the religion there parents had, isn't that proof they (most) don't think about there religion? :hmm:

I agree that the majority of people who profess a particular religion do so without really thinking about it. The comments to which I am objecting are those which label all Christians as unintelligent and unthinking.