Plausibility v. Possibility

Christian Pollution: Polemics & Absurdities Part 2. From the Chapter Christianity: The Bullshit is Possible, (But Probably Not,) & Therefore Dishonest

Plausibility v. Possibility

Driving a car blindfolded at top speed along a busy highway holds the possibility of survival. Every day, Christianity demands billions of people blindly race through life toward outcomes. The reason people obey this demand stems from Christian misuse of philosophy that deceives believers with a logic that presents possibility as plausibility.

Philosophy holds many purposes, and perhaps most importantly, the means of discerning solutions to real-world problems. In Isaiah Berlin’s Concepts and Categories discussion “The Purpose of Philosophy,” he states, “it seems clear that subjects or fields of study are determined by the kind of questions to which they have been invented to provide the answers.”¹ Berlin describes this inquiry as coherent for knowing “where” to seek answers. One would not learn to build an airplane by looking at a rock or, as Berlin states, “In other words, we know where to look for the answer: we know what makes some answers plausible and others not.”²

This point concerning philosophy cannot be over-emphasized! If you want to understand compounds and solvents, you study chemistry. If you want to understand politics, you study political science. By researching or learning these topics, we answer questions most plausibly, not possibly. Christian misuse of philosophy presents a belief in God and, by extension, the bible and Christianity as a plausible notion rather than its true nature of possibility.

You see this misrepresentation clearly in ontological and cosmological arguments such as intelligent design used by many Christians wrongly and deceptively as plausible evidence. Like the Church forced scientists to subscribe to an earth-centric universe, forcing believers to use a thought framework filled with erroneous ideas; no matter how rationally correct, they are wrong or arrived at correctly via luck. In the Christian worldview, actions, behaviors, and thoughts form on the foundation of possibility making everything conform to the Christian worldview: that when examined for efficacy and benefit to society, it should provide since this is the underlying all-important ideology driving the universe, Christianity not only fails to solve problems but actually creates many of the most pressing social issues.

Consider for a moment LGBTQ marriage equality. The entire argument against allowing marriage in this diverse group in the United States stems directly from Christian binary views of gender and sexuality and their wish to foist these views on LGBTQ persons. There is no biological, public health, or substantive concern beyond the Christian desire to enforce their beliefs.

Gay marriage, sex education, contraception, abortion, and many, many more issues root not in socioeconomic concerns (clearly shown by the fact that contraception reduces unwanted pregnancy) but in Christianity’s oppressive nature that enforces values through law and policy.

Considering these issues concerning Christianity, the implausibility of Christianity becomes apparent as Christian values, like banning contraception, factually place women at higher risk of unwanted pregnancies they must now carry to term in many states. Operating on the possibility that Christianity is true, millions of people incur risk, lose rights such as marriage and bodily autonomy, and experience many other detrimental impacts, thus violating the purpose of philosophy to solve problems by deceiving believers with false axioms.

Christianity is dishonest.

The only way to get people to buy into Christianity is to indoctrinate them (preferably from birth) and misuse philosophy’s critical thinking to misrepresent Christianity’s possibility as equally plausible and beneficial (otherwise, why believe it?) On these grounds, we reject Christianity and expose its implausibility, dishonesty, and complete lack of benefit.

1. Isaiah Berlin Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays - Second Edition 2nd Edition, Princeton University Press; 2nd edition (November 10, 2013Kindle Edition

2. Ibid.