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Originally Posted by Open Mind  Is physicalism / materialism a dangerous belief?
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It is an extremely dangerous belief indeed. The materialists would have it that we are soulless robots living out our purposeless lives in a purposeless Universe with the added promise that soon we will cease to exist forevermore. They would have it that everything we ever perceive is a comprehensive delusion. That everything that we ever see is a lie. That our loves, hopes, fears, aspirations, everything that we have ever thought, felt and experienced is nothing over and above meaningless atoms in motion or meaningless chemical processes.
They deny everything and anything that appears to be truly real, and which truly matters, and substitute their lies, and then they have the effrontery to deride anyone who calls into question their wholly unwarranted crazy interpretation of reality.
Unfortunately many people are unskilled in philosophy and implicitly tend to suppose that science has shown materialism to be correct. In fact there are many reasons and a great deal of evidence demonstrating that the above interpretation of reality is absurd.