When you ask for evidence, do you get it? Or do you get a lot of tap-dancing to explain why you shouldn’t need evidence?
If the latter, then this cartoon is for you.
But that’s only one ending. There are lots of others.
- Thinking that he has a baseball gives him a sense of peace. Who are you to upset his equalibrium?
- What if you think he doesn’t have a baseball, and you’re wrong? Eternal consequences, that’s what!
- It’s not meant to be taken literally. It’s a metaphorical baseball.
- He has an amazing perfect baseball, so perfect that it doesn’t manifest itself in this physical plane. But it’s real, all right. Also, it transcends science.
- All your family thinks he has a baseball, and what will they think of you if you don’t believe in it?
- I knows that he has a baseball. I don’t just believes it; I knows it. With every fiber of my beings.
- He really does has a baseball, so give him ten percent of all your money.
Thanks to snowqueen.
22 January 2010 at 2:35 pm
If you've yet to join the conversation re X-Mormon of the Year over at Main Street Plaza, this here is your official invite! ( And all apologies for this spamalicious OT comment ! )
20 June 2014 at 9:25 pm
There has actually been work done by psychologists and anthropologists trying to examine exactly why the way that "religious beliefs" are used within a person's internal "logic system" behave differently from other beliefs. If I remember correctly, Scott Atran did a lot of writing on this 10-15 years ago (I don't know if he still does).
He actually formulated a hypothesis about how we may have a "mental module" of a type of belief that functions in inherently illogical ways, and that it might have been adaptive in some settings, but that religious beliefs are kind of a 'unfortunate by-products" of that feature of cognition.
Interesting stuff.