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Religious Credence V.S. Factual Belief - Coggle Diagram
Religious Credence V.S. Factual Belief
Practical setting independent
Religious credence
Religious credences are not factual beliefs, it is practical setting dependent. For example, communion wafer and wine is the body and blood of Jesus in religious thinking. But, it does not apply to everywhere.
Factual belief
Factual beliefs are practical setting independent. Foe example, I believe if I drop an apple off a second story stage, it will fall to ground no matter where I am. My factual belief in gravity operates across practical settings.
Cognitively govern other attitudes
Factual Belief
Factual beliefs form the baseline for our understanding of how things work. For example, it is usually the marker when it comes to a fantasy world or a world operates according to a different rules.
Religious credence
Religious does not govern our understanding of reality, and it is not baseline for our understanding. For example, Jesus rise from the dead, but human beings don't rise from the dead. They claims when the died, they just died. Religious credence don't govern our understanding of reality of the world in the way factual beliefs do.
Evidentially vulnerable
Factual belief
Factual beliefs are vulnerable to evidences. It operates according to evidences. For example, I believe there is no hyena around us, so we are safe. Suddenly I heard a hyena crying out, then I am changing the belief because the evidence shows that.
Religious credence
People don't believe Jesus rise from dead because of evidences. But religious credence still believes in it no matter there is evidence to prove it.
What is Religious Credence?
Normative Orientation
It gives folks of what the world should be. It prescribes an idea of good and the beautiful and true. It prescribes the idea of how the world should be.
susceptible to free elaboration
Elaborate out your religious credence to apply it to your life.
vulnerable to special authority
It is often given by somebody who is thought to be admirable. For example, Jesus is taken to be anointed as the son of God, which indicates that his words have special significance and people believe them without the consideration of the evidence, scientific data.