I was in a philosophy class, and as the professor was discussing various religious beliefs, i could see a few students were getting noticeably upset...specifically discussing the "problem of evil" in religion....finally there was an outburst....
"it was the devil's fault" one student yelled out.
"no it's because of free will" another cried.
"you can't blame god for evil" another said.
It was as if they couldn't understand the arguments at all, the professor wasn't claiming any argument to be correct, he was just explaining all angles of the argument, and these students couldn't even wrap their head around the argument to understand what it was saying...Their responses were the same, blindly regurgitating what they had been taught rather than thinking about the argument, and finding problems: either with it's premises, or problems with how the premises lead to the conclusions.
Where as I, with no religious bias, could clearly see both sides of the argument, and understand it.
2007-10-22
02:55:09
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