There are any number of reasons why people will tell you they "believe" in their gods or their religions. But perhaps the most interesting of those reasons, which is seldom admitted by "believers," is simply the fact that their "beliefs" cannot be falsified.
Karl Popper pointed out that, for a theory to be scientifically and thus logically valid, it must be testable, and thus falsifiable. But from flat earth believers to Christians, such "beliefs" can neither be tested nor falsified.
And when we look at the recent phenomenon of people "converting" to "flat earth" beliefs, we see that the strongest evidence they have for their conversion comes from their inability to falsify the claims of flat earthers. And in the same way a person cannot falsify God or virtually any of the claims made by religion - such as the existence of a soul, "original sin," heaven & hell, and so much more - so a person who cannot falsify the claims of flat earthers simply concludes their claims must therefore be true.
Wait until a couple thousand years have passed, and countless people have erected a church that they accept has been given by a God, the sole authority and power to define "infallible truth" concerning our 'flat earth,' in which it has hired a professional class of flat earth theologians to write and defend endlessly its unfalsifiable claims; threatened, tortured and murdered all those who oppose it's flat earth doctrines; and proven again and again that it is the infallible arbiter of all truth from our divine flat-earth making God...
... and the only person who would dare to think the earth was round would be crucified as a heretic...
... just like Jesus.
Karl Popper pointed out that, for a theory to be scientifically and thus logically valid, it must be testable, and thus falsifiable. But from flat earth believers to Christians, such "beliefs" can neither be tested nor falsified.
And when we look at the recent phenomenon of people "converting" to "flat earth" beliefs, we see that the strongest evidence they have for their conversion comes from their inability to falsify the claims of flat earthers. And in the same way a person cannot falsify God or virtually any of the claims made by religion - such as the existence of a soul, "original sin," heaven & hell, and so much more - so a person who cannot falsify the claims of flat earthers simply concludes their claims must therefore be true.
Wait until a couple thousand years have passed, and countless people have erected a church that they accept has been given by a God, the sole authority and power to define "infallible truth" concerning our 'flat earth,' in which it has hired a professional class of flat earth theologians to write and defend endlessly its unfalsifiable claims; threatened, tortured and murdered all those who oppose it's flat earth doctrines; and proven again and again that it is the infallible arbiter of all truth from our divine flat-earth making God...
... and the only person who would dare to think the earth was round would be crucified as a heretic...
... just like Jesus.
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