Lesson 6-Groundless beliefs IV. Supplementary Reading The problems with beliefs by Jim Walker People have slaughtered each other in wars, inquisitions, and political actions for centuries and still kill each other over beliefs in religions, political ideologies, and philosophies. These belief-systems when stated as proposItions, may appear mystical and genuine to the naive but when confronted with a testable bases from reason and experiment they fail miserably. I maintain that beliefs create more social problems than they solve and that beliefs, and especially those elevated to faith, produce the most destructive potential to the future of humankind W BTE To be continued on the next pageLesson 6—Groundless Beliefs W B T L E People have slaughtered each other in wars, inquisitions, and political actions for centuries and still kill each other over beliefs in religions, political ideologies, and philosophies. These belief-systems, when stated as propositions, may appear mystical, and genuine to the naive, but when confronted with a testable bases from reason and experiment, they fail miserably. I maintain that beliefs create more social problems than they solve and that beliefs, and especially those elevated to faith, produce the most destructive potential to the future of humankind. IV. Supplementary Reading To be continued on the next page. The problems with beliefs by Jim Walker