tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post7935168314166976747..comments2023-10-30T07:45:43.656-04:00Comments on Thoughts and Ideas: Re: Faith and "logic" (part I)A Wiser Man Than Ihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-81954003539790473172008-04-08T23:21:00.001-04:002008-04-08T23:21:00.001-04:00and if you're bored: http://www.smh.com.au/article...and if you're bored: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/29/1093717837898.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-9659204350606277412008-04-08T23:21:00.000-04:002008-04-08T23:21:00.000-04:00Perhaps you might peruse this page:http://www.thew...Perhaps you might peruse this page:<BR/><BR/>http://www.theworkofgod.org/Aparitns/Lourdes/Lourdes1.htm#Clementine%20TROUVE<BR/><BR/>Even if someone's imagination is particularly active, it takes a similarly active imagination in many more people to get the 'miracle' stamp of approval. Though, regardless of having to convince the investigators, 70,000 people having identically active imaginations and identically dry clothes does seem a little suspect....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-90121447153374964532008-03-18T14:37:00.000-04:002008-03-18T14:37:00.000-04:00All right, this is a lot to respond to, but I'll t...All right, this is a lot to respond to, but I'll try to put something together for tonight or tomorrow. To this end, it would be great if you could sum up your main points in the second part of your response. <BR/><BR/>Right now it looks like what would be most helpful for me to do is (1) to offer some kind of naturalistic account for the existence of religion, (2) to provide some examples of what I think Christianity gets right and wrong, and (3) to sketch a secular ethics.<BR/><BR/>Just one point of clarification in the meanwhile: where I said that "certain social situations and psychological conditions provide ample incentives for more or less self-conscious confabulation" I should have written "conscious or unconscious confabulation." I'm happy to believe that most people are sincere in their accounts of the miraculous. It's just that I suspect their imaginations are rather more active than they realize.PJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03211470393162983933noreply@blogger.com