Reply #59: Religion is epistemological laziness [View All]

[Philosophy]

I've read your blog entry and my analysis of your argument pretty much reduces to this:

Epistemological laziness

You have some level of intellectual curiosity, but you have conciously chosen to artificially limit it. There are questions "why" which you arbitrarily choose to believe are fundamentally rationally unanswerable because they are too difficult (for intellectual, emotional, or psychological reasons) for you to logically find the answer, and your religion allows you to "believe" an answer (which it also conveniently provides) without actually knowing it through knowledge acquired via a logically consistent method. Your religion actually deceives you into rejecting knowledge while simultaneously providing an emotionally satisfying justification - that the rejection of rationalism is considered a virtue, as it is in all religions. Unanswered questions make you feel uncomfortable, and ignorance is bliss, so primitive emotions have lead you to decide that achieving happiness is a more worthy goal than realizing objective truth, whenever these two conflict.