What do you think the worst aspect of your faith or worldview is?

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That depends on what you're measuring. "Worse" in terms of uncertainty? Or difficulty? Or complexity? Or harm? Or what? And "worse" in what sense? Worse in the sense that things would be better if it weren't true, but it is true, so we have to face reality and cope with it? Or what? The question is too ambiguous to answer.

The question is also moot. It's always worse to believe in what's false. Thus even the worst thing about the truth is better than any mistake or lie. So you should be asking which worldview is true, not taking stock of whether you "like" one more than another. It's better if you learn instead to like what's true, rather than what you think will be comforting.

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Some supposedly educated Americans throw around words they don't really understand, such as "moot". They use it to mean "redundant" and or "irrelevant". Moot has only 2 correct meanings: "Subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty", or in other appropriate contexts it has the second meaning of "Having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision" (See Oxford Dictionaries). Richard's expression of certainty by his answer of "It's always worse to believe in what's false" clearly shows he does not use the meaning of "moot" correctly.
Furthermore, his "It's better if you learn instead to like what's true, rather than what you think will be comforting" is illogical& unscientific. All religions & beliefs claim truth! Yet culturally people turn to what they like &find comforting (Social Sciences)

Richard was playing semantic hair-splitting games like various Christian 'experts' or theologians do to sho

— Correcting the Errors of Those Who Play Word Games

What do you think the worst aspect of your faith or worldview is?

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