David B Caton

Everyone Believes David B Caton

Everyone believes! All people from all walks of life, in all ages, base their lives on what they believe. Belief is intrinsic to the human being, and knowledge is built upon our beliefs. What we believe is founded mostly on what we have been told and today, possibly more than ever before, exist a multitude of voices crying for people to believe as they do-from the playground to the retirement village we are hounded to believe and to conform. Our core disposition to believe is beyond religious or non-religious thought, and so the question becomes, what will we believe? The impetus for human actualisation has given us, in the Western world, the freedom to possess our personal beliefs-so long as we do so privately, but that has also lead to a fracturing of society in ways reminiscent of Humpty Dumpty's end-without a strong coalescence of belief, a society builds with iron and clay. This book explores the widespread nature of belief as the foundational reason as to why human beings do what they do, how others want to rally us to their beliefs and vilify those who don't, and why even within the broad spectrum of common belief be it religious, political, scientific or military, we so often find ourselves at enmity with those with whom we largely agree. The truth is, we can't all be right-anyway that's what I believe, what about you?