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HeavyLogix t1_iw85ffh wrote

Reply to comment by logicalmaniak in A cross between an Existentialist and an Old Testament prophet, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard urged his "single individual" reader to follow the "highest passion" of faith rather than becoming one of the stereotyped pseudo-individuals of "The Crowd" by thelivingphilosophy

That’s called post hoc ergo propter hoc. It’s a fallacy, and precisely why you can’t use faith as any form of rational thinking. It is what you want it be, therefore nothing in the end. There’s no way around faith being total bullshit.

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logicalmaniak t1_iw8goro wrote

I'm not arguing for it being rational. I'm arguing that it works. You believe, you receive. Whatever neurological or cosmological explanation that has, it's still true.

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HeavyLogix t1_iwa8a8t wrote

To argue that it works you’d need to show it, logically, with evidence, rather than pull an assertion out of your ass. There is no more reason for anyone to believe this is true than there is for my claim that a unicorn flew out of my ass today.

You can stop your bullshit here.

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