I think it's too difficult to take this reasoning into specific cases. That is, with the general reasoning I've been talking about, I'm going to conclude that I think it's best to take the general possibility of deity seriously.
Given that, and given my upbringing and personal experience and everything else, I think that it's best to take Thomas Monson very seriously. I hardly know anything about Sun Myung Moon so I can't say anything about him.
I can't possibly ask you to do that second part, but I think that the possibility of deity in general is a cause I will fight for.
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So on your account, if I've understood it, I have sufficient evidence to justify a high confidence in a conscious higher Power consistent with the accounts of all believers in Abrahamic religions, though not necessarily identical to that described in any of those accounts, and the fact that I lack such confidence is merely because I haven't properly evaluated the evidence available to me. Yes?
Just to avoid confusion, I'm going to label that evidence -- the evidence I have access to on this account -- E1.
Going further: on your account, you have more e... (read more)
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