Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Bite-sized Philosophy" channel.

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  8.  @martok2008  : What makes you think Japan is atheist? And what makes you think Denmark isn't cutting its own throat as we speak? The fact is, the religionists will always out-breed the "logical" atheists, so even if the atheists are 100% correct, they're congratulating themselves as they go extinct. I don't think atheists are 100% correct. I think they have a multitude of assumptions built into their arguments of which they're not even fully aware. And where do those assumptions come from? Immersion in a society that itself was immersed in belief in God, when it was formed. The "self-evident truths" in the Declaration of Independence or the axiomatics underlying the atheists' arguments flowed initially from a notion of a God with some very specific ideas as to what is Good and what is not. As a separate question, it's no more rational to disbelieve in God than to believe in God. God was invented for all those big questions for which the evidence of our senses (i.e. science) has no answers. Belief or disbelief are equally irrational choices, because science is SILENT on such questions. A rational person must needs be agnostic. As for myself, I've been immersed in superstition since Day 1, so there's no shaking it. And it turns out that my irrational superstitious child-brain makes for better living in the NOW than a crushing certainty that we're all just animals in an uncaring universe, even though there's no REAL evidence to believe the universe is anything more than a Big Is that is oblivious to us.
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