B1rd wrote:
No idea what you expect me to Google.
Anyone can point holes in someone's belief system. You can criticise the Ancient Israelites for only eating Kosher food because they thought that God would punish them otherwise. But even if that weren't correct, it still ended up protecting them from the multitude of parasites that you fin in pork that wasn't perfectly prepared, and from a practical standpoint they were more correct than the gentiles. That's the error of psuedo-intellectuals, they think that because they can point out a few logical inconsistencies in someone's belief system they can then attribute that entire system to irrationality. But it's a lot easier tear something down than to construct an entire system of values that will help you get along in the world, something most atheists lack.
I don't know why you saw my example as an attack on theism, because it really wasn't. The only thing I wanted to demonstrate is that a correct result doesn't necessarily prove that your methodology is correct. In the case of the example: B gets run over by a car. A's prediction therefore turned out to be correct ("something bad will happen"), but his methodology was still utter garbage ("rain gods, obviously").
For context, google "If it involves a fight between a man and a woman, don't take jordan seriously. He has a history of hating women in general regardless of what actually happened.
Unlike what tumblr people call mysoginist (basically anybody that isn't a woman agreeing with their point of view), i think he actually is one."
Whether or not something has practical value is a different question. A heuristic or cultural norm can return correct values in certain situations, but fail horribly in other situations. The "no-meat"-cultural norm works really well when you have no way to sanitize your meat, but when you DO have a way, it becomes a useless garbage rule that imposes a mostly needless restriction. If you don't like that particular example, feel free to find a better one yourself, as there are many.
Jordans mysoginism sometimes happens to return correct values, in situations where the girl really does turn out to be a horrible person. In all other situations it goes horribly wrong and Jordan ends up being unhappy and alone because of it, if he doesn't change his methodology.
