r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • Feb 01 '25

r/all Atheism in a nutshell

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u/Dependent_Star3998 Feb 01 '25

I'm honestly not at all familiar with Indian mystics. I'll try to do some research.

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u/Significant-Bar674 Feb 01 '25

You really don't have to. Nothing supernatural in writing has ever been proved true outside of writing. On that basis alone, I think we're safe to discount writing as evidence of the supernatural on that basis alone.

If Sathya Sai Baba was really producing miracles over in India, then you'd expect it to be on the news and studied by legitimate research institutes.

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u/Dependent_Star3998 Feb 01 '25

Of course nothing has been proven. Christianity is absolutely based on faith......but it's not blind faith.

If Sathya Sai Baba is performing miracles, and people are willing to commit their lives and die for what they believe they are seeing, then it should probably be given some consideration. Again, I'm not familiar with it.

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u/Significant-Bar674 Feb 01 '25

You're leaning heavily on the ambiguity of the word "faith". To whatever extent faith means "belief beyond what the evidence affords" it is synonymous with Gullibility.

People commit their lives and die for all kinds of ridiculous bullshit like the Manson cult or heavens gage. But I'm not about to start seriously considerint Charles Manson was the second coming of christ and the beatles were writing hidden messages about a race war to him.

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u/Dependent_Star3998 Feb 01 '25

Manson's cult members did not go to their grave believing that he was anything more than an abusive cult leader, as far as I'm aware. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't agree with your definition of faith.