The Wizard
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OK... Calvin. I was just trying to point something out towards your research questions with previous post. However (wink), per your above question. It's all in the objective result of a belief... not the necessity of evidence prior (I.e. which is a semantical contradiction, of course). I guess it would require negative and bad circumstances, results or experiences to begin that were correlative to my beliefs... or change of beliefs.You will note that was not the question at hand, though ty for sharing...
Consider the reflexive...
"What evidence/circumstance would you require to disavow your own faith-based beliefs?"
Anything come to mind?
Objectively, individually, bad beliefs will create bad results. Good beliefs create good results... Since we all are in our own relationship to the world and can be the only one to also study the integral belief/result affect on our Lives... it is up to each to make their own evaluation and judgment on what is good for them. Unless one thinks they are psychic and Omni-present enough to actually tell if another's beliefs are bad for them or not...
I don't believe in real demons from Hell. But, I think that the beliefs in such could create just that in a believer... self-created. But, then if one just popped out of nowhere and offered me a drink I guess I'd have to re-evaluate my belief, or rather disregard it- in exchange for knowledge .
Aliens? or, A-lie-in-us... would not affect my beliefs in God or The Creator. It would be just like the other tribes and their various beliefs of this world- just another chunk of the grand puzzle piece of The One Source Picture Show..
Now, ghosts have me stomped. I can't make heads or tails of that stuff nor decide what is real or not or what to do with ghosts. So, in all, I am supposing that a faith based belief is untouchable and is not supposed to ever be disavowed in the first place.. In fact, most belief systems have a measure in which not really anything on this planet or anywhere else should have any affect... especially what you call " the power to disavow"..... just my opinion.
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