The Faith to Reason Continuum

[JustBusiness17]

I was a little inspired by Fideism on this one but what do you guys think about this diagram. It's simple but I also think it communicates a lot without saying much.

 

[lrkun]

May I request that you amplify the illustration with regards to what the arrows mean. It's a little difficult to understand.

 

[TheFlyingBastard]

Technically not a continuum, but how's this for inspiration? :V

 

[JustBusiness17]

May I request that you amplify the illustration with regards to what the arrows mean. It's a little difficult to understand.

Funny guy...


@TheFlyingBastard - I'm not sure "secular" necessarily correlates to a valid argument. There are plenty of secular people who are limited in their ability to reason

 

[TheFlyingBastard]

@TheFlyingBastard - I'm not sure "secular" necessarily correlates to a valid argument. There are plenty of secular people who are limited in their ability to reason

Two things - that graph isn't about people, but about arguments. Also, the line never reaches completely valid.

 

[JustBusiness17]

@TheFlyingBastard - I'm not sure "secular" necessarily correlates to a valid argument. There are plenty of secular people who are limited in their ability to reason

Two things - that graph isn't about people, but about arguments. Also, the line never reaches completely valid.

I'll grant you that

 

[ShootMyMonkey]

Perhaps, if you wanted to make the graph a little more about people, you could probably show that the red-line describes mean-value, but the distribution does get wider as you tend towards secularity. Conversely, religiosity corresponds to very small variance in how fallacious people's arguments get... which is to say, they're all very high on the scale. The secular end of the spectrum would cover a range from dogged rationalism to deluded crazies, but the mean value would still fall on that red line.

Makes sense, as well since religion has that strong enforcement of social control, so the idea is to ensure that everybody is similarly stupid. A secular population would have no such thing. Which I suppose is another element that makes a secular society look very fearful to the religious and/or to conservatives, who perceive that as "moral relativism."