Re: Letter to the Editor: Belief system is key to behaviour

<<It cannot be disputed that what we believe, not what we say we
believe, determines how we act. >>

Nonsense. I deeply, deeply believe that French Fries are bad for me,
but I eat them anyway. I refuse to accept that deep down, I really
think they're a healthful food.

<<Both wisdom and knowledge are acquired by different processes. >>

Only if you don't consider wisdom to be knowledge.

<<believe in the eventual and ultimate consequences of our
behaviour.>>

No, we don't have to believe that. Immortality doesn't necessarily
imply any sort of judgement in the hereafter.

<<For those who believe, that is a strong inhibitor on anti-personal
and anti-social behaviour.>>

Apparently not, given the Christian Crusades, burning of heretics,
Jews, etc.

<<we deny the existence of an immortal soul, then physical death ends
all, with no inevitable accountability, and the rule becomes "don't
get caught.">>

The big assumption is that engaging in good conduct is solely to avoid
punishment, either in this life or the next. That may be true for
some people, but it's false for a lot too.

<<If we believe in inevitable consequence...the basis upon which our
democracy was built and upon which it still rests.>>

That's a big non-sequitur.

<<That syndrome is desire in each of us to return to the security of
our origins, the womb.>>

Sounds Freudian, and suspect it's no longer a currently held view. I
won't grace it with the word "theory."

<<If we believe that our origins are derived from a high and almighty
God creator, then the draw is toward that higher and holy place. >>

There may indeed be a draw, but it apparently doesn't result in
modeling the behavior presumed to be found in that place.

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