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Raptor Jesus
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Date: December 07, 2011 04:55PM
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http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,359255,359436#msg-359436I wanted to respond to thingsithink's question.
"Do you require evidence for musical greatness as well? Or just in the arena of religion? I'm suspecting one of the "best guitar solos ever" sucked rocks. It's just a guess. :)"
One, yes I do require evidence for musical greatness. However, things like the arts all have an aesthetic preference to them. So people can be very talented, work really hard, produce something inovative and still be considered "rock sucking" by some.
For example, I really don't like the Beatles regardless of their talent and what they did to change the entire rock world.
Aesthetic preference. So if you were to claim that, "Justin Bieber is the greatest musician of all time." I would understand that your claim has some aesthetic baggage to it. But I would also require evidence to agree with your claim at least in part. It would never fully come to fruition because your undying love for Justin Bieber would never jive with my metal aesthetic preferences.
Religious claims are often not within this same realm at all. There may be claims that deal with ethics (which I would absolutely require evidence for whenever a religion says, "THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO LIVE.)
However, religious claims are often things that should require evidence, but religious people often want to weasel their way out of because they HAVE no evidence for their claims.
Like taking certain bible stories literally and claiming that Regular Jesus was resurrected and so were a bunch of other jerkbags around 33 AD.
No historical evidence. I don't have to accept that claim.
Scientific claims and theories require evidence. And the nice thing about science is that theories can be refined given new evidence. And I can change my mind about that.
And YES I absolutely would change my mind about religion given new evidence.
But religions don't believe in that. They'd rather just have faith....
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2011 04:57PM by Raptor Jesus.