Why is it human to have doubts about everything?
I have doubts about some things but not about everything.
Skepticism is one of the best ideas man has ever conceived, and philosophical skepticism is at the vanguard of human thought. Most people have little interest or education in that area. Ever since Descartes, philosophers have learned to doubt all propositions beyond the claim of being a conscious agent. But you're correct that that kind of thinking doesn't characterize most of humanity.
I do not reject logic. It is logical to have faith in what there is evidence for
You haven't learned the rules of reason. I'm sure that you can't see the self-contradiction (incoherence) in that comment.
I do not have to reject logic and reason in order to believe in God or Messengers of God
Yes, you do, because reason tells you not to believe what you believe - if you learn how to apply it properly.
It is only your personal opinion that being doubtful and skeptical about the existence of God is both healthy and reasonable.
This again? When don't you write that? No, it's not only his personal opinion. Millions of people agree, and I am another one. Last time I posted that about millions agreeing, you reflexively and uncritically called it an ad populum fallacy. It is not. It is an easily confirmed statement of fact. You will never understand that not all opinions are equal, and will continue making that comment indefinitely to demonstrate it.
Comparing a heroin addict to a true believer is the fallacy of false equivalence
The comparison is quite apt. I've made a similar one using cigarettes.
Here's one example here from last month:
"Yes, she feels that she needs to cling to her life raft of a belief, but who put her in that position? Cui bono? I'd say that that need is created by that belief. It can be a psychological dependence of sorts, the loss of which can be terrifying and even lead to withdrawal symptoms. You tunneled out, too. What was that like for you? For me, it was a year of praying to a god I no longer fully believed in to give me a sign if I was wrong and making a mistake turning my back on that religion and its god. Eventually, that stopped, just like my craving for cigarettes when I gave them up, also over about a year."
What fallacy is contradicting yourself?
Self-contradiction or self-contradictory can refer to: Auto-antonym, a word with multiple meanings of which one is the reverse of another. Formal fallacy,
a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure.
Did you have a reason for posting that to me? Do you think it relates to the quote above it? Are you conflating superior thinking with a superior person? It appears so.
Conversely, if you judge your worth by that then you might feel superior.
Didn't I make my position on that clear already? I guess not. No, I do not judge my worth by my thinking skills or any of the other think I have learned to do, but your insecurity suggests that you do, since it was your thinking and not your character or worth that was being discussed, yet that's what you seem to have read.
Too bad that you have boxed yourself in and can't be reached any more. There is nothing any critical thinker can teach you. Why? Because of an impervious confirmation basis. There is no way for you see where you are wrong where you are if you won't dispassionately evaluate evidence before your confirmation bias rejects the possibility. You will never stop experiencing this as personal attack and insult. You will never learn how to actually properly identify an unsound argument or a fallacy in it. Your RF life would be so much more satisfying for you if you stopped trying to usurp reason from critical thinkers and claiming it for yourself, or even could consider the possibility that you believe what you believe because it is comfortable (by faith).
Who would disagree with that? Nobody else, but apparently you do, and are too proud to relent at all. You seem to think as little about belief by faith as any critical thinker, which must be why you fight to be seen as a sound thinker, but that's not going to happen as long as you keep making these errors, and you will for years to come. That's what I mean by being hemmed in. There is a way to correct a false belief, but you'd have to do it to obtain that benefit. If you noticed my comment in the quote above, "You tunneled out, too," it was in reference to this process - critical thought. Thank God I never lost that ability in my Christian years or I'd still be stuck there, too. There's no other way out.
So, resign yourself to reading replies like this one for the next several years. Because what you're doing is analogous to stolen valor: "Stolen valor is an American term for the behavior of military impostors: individuals who lie about their military service." Those are people who want the credit without doing the work, and those that did it resent them for it will go to great lengths to expose them. That's how the world feels about this pathological liar Santos for stealing credit for degrees he never earned, for example, and other fraudulent claims. That's how I feel about your stolen reasoning claim. It's like claiming a credential or degree that you never earned.
