re: #181 William Lewis

There is no difference in those two. So there is no difference between them and me?

They believe in an unprovable thing. I presume by your statement you are also religious, therefore also believe in an unprovable thing.

Which goes back to my question, how do you know your unprovable thing is right and theirs is wrong?

Or is it more likely because those things are in fact unprovable, they are all wrong?

The belief in unprovable things undermines science. Many many so-called good Christians are convinced climate change caused by humans is false, simply because only God can destroy the world.

Many many so-called good Christians believe abortion is murder (even though it isn’t in their holy book). An eight-celled blastocyst in their minds is precisely the same thing as a born infant.

And when a person reasons themselves into believing unprovable things, they cannot be reasoned out of it. So yes, those who believe unprovable things are in fact fifth columnists for others who believe other unprovable things: they all undermine reason.