No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
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