Rise of atheism: 100,000 Brits seek 'de-baptism'

[Final-Fan]

appolose said:

Final-Fan said:

mesoteto said:

donathos said:
Everything that our senses communicate is reality.  Our intellectual interpretations of the data from our senses might be faulty (e.g. a hallucination or a mirage) but the data itself is right; there are reasons for hallucinations and mirages, too, and our senses point to them.

what about a blind man, he cant see so is what we are seeing not real?

or a deaf man, he cant hear, are teh sounds not real?

Sanity is defined by the majority. 

@ appolose:  The only way your argument works is to question all of existence outside of good ole cogito ergo sum, which is fun but pointless.  Trusting in the existence of the apparent universe isn't "faith" but "life".

Why is that?

Because it's so basic.  In the same way, I wouldn't say that I beat my heart; my heart just beats.  Every single thinking thing in the universe operates on the assumption that the universe exists at a level that I think is not equivalent to religious "faith".