Reply #34: and the value of such epistomolgy is?

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kerry4kerry:
there's way too much confidence in things like belief in souls and spirits and gods and afterlives when there's nothing at all beyond a mere feeling as validation, and no testable consequences one way or the other about such beliefs.

First, I am talking about knowledge in the abstract, not particularly relating to the issue of religious belief. I am also not claiming knowledge of other people's spiritual or religious beliefs.

I have little interest in attempting to convince anyone else of my beliefs

I think the idea of calling it "mere feeling" is incorrect. A good deal of thought goes into religious belief, a good deal of free thought and rational thought. You might not agree, but that is how I see if from where I astand.