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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Beliefs have consequences. See Islam, Marxism, etc.

You omitted my qualifier, which said no one should have a problem with another person's belief "as long as it doesn’t break your leg or pick your pocket."

Militant Islam and Marxism do both.

I've seen the "beliefs have consequences" line parroted about quite a lot lately ("Again, purely naturalistic beliefs have consequences", "...but again, there are consequences to those beliefs...")

I guess it's the new talking point for religious apologetics, but let's be very clear, 'beliefs' about reality don't affect the 'facts' of reality.

You 'believing' something doesn't make it so.

196 posted on 05/05/2014 9:32:20 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
I guess it's the new talking point for religious apologetics, but let's be very clear, 'beliefs' about reality don't affect the 'facts' of reality.

No. But people act on their beliefs. Beliefs determine morality.

And "without God, everything is permissible."

You omitted my qualifier, which said no one should have a problem with another person's belief "as long as it doesn’t break your leg or pick your pocket."

I was a libertarian in my '20s. It's not the worst philosophy in the world, but it's very shallow, and rests on nothing.

If you want truth and depth, try Aristotle and Aquinas.

273 posted on 05/05/2014 4:31:30 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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