• nxfsi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    114·
    1 year ago

    Why do you assume they didn’t get therapy? Faith* is essential for many people to survive hardships.

    *Even atheists have to believe in something if not a deity

    • PunnyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Depends on how you define belief.
      For me, it’s based on a lack of evidence / understanding.

      I don’t believe, if I can help it.

      In anything.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yes. I believe in things. Pencils, Neptune, internal combustion engines. You know, things that we have evidence for the existence of.

      Or by ‘believe in something’ did you mean some sort of woo-woo bullshit? Because I have no need to believe in woo-woo bullshit.

      • nxfsi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        So you’re saying you believe in your own intelligence? Got it.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          No, I don’t believe in my human intelligence, I have evidence for it. I don’t have to believe things I can show to be true with evidence.

          You’re one of those people who call evolution a belief, aren’t you?

    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      You are equivocating two meanings of belief.

      Believing things that are provable is OK.

      Believing mythical nonsense you were told in a story book or a temple is not OK. Faith is not a path for truth.

    • Cruxifux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand. What do you mean “believe”? What do atheists believe in that isn’t based in actual tangible reality that you’re referring to here?