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Originally Posted by uke_master
Sure, it is only for a narrow scope of questions. But in the domain being asked it is precisely this. You think something is true precisely if you think believing that makes you a better person in the ways you identified. It is just a horrific epistemology and you wouldn't accept it in any other context. For instance, suppose I said "things that are true are things that make me feel better about myself". Well I can think I am the president and feel good about that if I want, but that doesn't make it true. Now I realize this is a different domain of questions than the domain you identified, but the point is that you would reject it in any other domain, so why do you think it works for religion?
I don't understand what you are talking about, sorry. Just give examples and we will see if my system works or not.
My claim did assume that a claim makes sense in the first place. Making sense means it is logical. Look your example: "things that are true are things that make me feel better about myself" is not logical. Why? Cause things can be true without making you feel better about yourself. If you are tortured, than this is true but you will not feel better about yourself.
To your second point about domains: I really don't understand what you are talking about.
To clear things up. I was mostly assuming with religious, we are talking about abrahamovic religions. But my claim as far as I know will also be correct regarding Buddhismus, Hinduismus and like.
My claim is by itself very logical. Every religion as far as I know wants ppl to be happy. No religions claim: Do this cause this makes you unhappy. They all say: do this and that for that you find happiness and joy.
Now my premise is: if you do something that hurts others, than sooner or later, they will do something what hurts you and if they shouldn't, God will do it (ofc from a religious point of view).
So any claim which avoids hurting other ppl in a way that it is not just, it is a religious claim. This is absolutely conform with what I said before, I only did say this with other words.