But as you've said, all the psychological benefits of believing in God don't make it *true*. Just because having faith in God, even having to struggle with that faith and finding it all the more meaningful, does not prove his existence. Are there benefits to believing in God? Yep, sure. It's comfort. It's believing someone cares. It's believing your existence has meaning. It's believing there's a *point*. But you might as easily believe in the Greek pantheon of gods, or, I don't know, *whatever*. The fact that believing can be good for you doesn't prove that the object of that belief exists.
And I'm not sure that, logically, "the possibility of his existence" can have an effect on reality. If that were so, the possibility of his existence would have an effect on *everyone's* reality, surely? I think what you mean is that the *belief* in the possibility (or even certainty) of his existence has an effect on reality, which brings you back to it being a psychological issue that has no bearing one way or another on the *actual* existence or otherwise of God.
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Date: 2007-06-28 02:16 pm (UTC)And I'm not sure that, logically, "the possibility of his existence" can have an effect on reality. If that were so, the possibility of his existence would have an effect on *everyone's* reality, surely? I think what you mean is that the *belief* in the possibility (or even certainty) of his existence has an effect on reality, which brings you back to it being a psychological issue that has no bearing one way or another on the *actual* existence or otherwise of God.