theists and objectivity can a theist be truly objective can he be impartial when questioning the truth of his scriptures or will he assume the superstition of his parents when questioning i ve often found it to be the case that the theist will stick to some kind of superstition when wondering about god and his scriptures i ve seen it in the christian the jew the muslim and the other theists alike all assume that their mothers and fathers were right in the aspect that a god exists and with that belief search for their god occasionally the theist may switch religions or aspects of the same religion but overall the majority keep to the belief that some creator was behind the universe s existence i ve known muslims who were once christians and vice versa i ve known christians who were once jewish and vice versa and i ve even known christians who become hindu yet throughout their transition from one faith to another they ve kept this belief in some form of higher being why it usually all has to do with how the child is brought up from the time he is born the theist is brought up with the notion of the truth of some kind of scripture the bible the torah the qur an etc he is told of this wondrous god who wrote or inspired the scripture of the prophets talked about in the scripture of the miracles performed etc he is also told that to question this as children are apt to do is a sin a crime against god and to lose belief in the scrip ture s truth is to damn one s soul to hell thus by the time he is able to read the scripture for himself the belief in its truth is so ingrained in his mind it all seems a matter of course but it doesn t stop there once the child is able to read for himself there is an endeavor to inculcate the child the right readings of scripture to concentrate more on the pleasant readings to gloss over the worse ones and to explain away the unexplainable with mystery circular arguments self evdent facts and truths unreasoning belief and fear of hell is the meat of religion the child must eat of every day to doubt of course means wrath of some sort and the child must learn to put away his brain when the matter concerns god all of this has some considerable effect on the child so that when he becomes an adult the superstitions he s been taught are nearly impossible to remove all of this leads me to ask whether the theist can truly be objective when questioning god hell heaven the angels souls and all of the rest can he for a moment put aside this notion that god does exist and look at everything from a unbiased point of view obviously most theists can somewhat especially when presented with mythical gods homeric roman egyptian etc but can they put aside the assumption of god s existence and question it impartially stephen atheist libertarian pro individuality pro responsibility jr and all that jazz
