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To: xzins

I respect your beliefs and am glad that you haven't taken offense.

But you're dead wrong - your proof is *not* objective. It's the very essence of subjective - only someone who has decided in advance that your religion is true feels as though it is true. To outsiders, your religion is every bit as false as it is true to you.

Objective would mean that people who don't share your faith could still see its truth. But then it wouldn't be faith.

Don't get me wrong - faith is a wonderful thing. But don't confuse faith with science or facts. Faith concerns itself with things that cannot be proven in the natural world. Science concerns itself with things that can. Confusing the two is downright dangerous.


804 posted on 11/14/2005 7:40:18 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

Allow me to encourage you to take the steps already mentioned.


806 posted on 11/14/2005 7:50:22 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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