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To: Soliton; tpanther

“People of faith will believe anything.” is what you said.

I can think of lots of things that I will not believe. (And, although your statement was future...”will”... I can think back through history of others who have not believed just anything.) And I know that of those living today that I can offer each of them something that they will not believe.

Your accusation applies to each of the people of faith. If each of them has something they will NOT believe, then it is falsified that they will believe “anything.”


16 posted on 08/19/2008 5:34:35 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: xzins

I stand by what I said. Faith is a flawed methodology for establishing truth.

People of faith I know believe in ghosts, demons, evil spirits, magic, virgin birth, resurrection of the dead after a thousand years or more. All of this seems normal to them in spite of the complete lack of evidence for any of it.

These same people are confident that other people’s religious beliefs are fale. They think the Muslim heaven full of virgins is ridiculous. They call the ancient religious stories of other religions “myths”.

People of faith will believe any kind of nonsense if it helps them with the difficulties of life. This is true of Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and Mormons.

The good news is that for the most part it has no effect. Religious countries are no more moral in action than those that are more secular. The United States has one of the highest percentages of people who claim belief in God and we have one of the highest murder rate too.


17 posted on 08/19/2008 5:47:46 AM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: xzins

And isn’t it amazing that those who ridicule those that believe in God by believing “anything”, will stop short at virtually nothing to silence them?

As if those that don’t believe in God, are somehow angry because we don’t believe in anything BUT “nothing”?

I don’t think they can see that.

It’s truly hard to see things though when you’re angry (at God in this case.)


38 posted on 08/19/2008 10:46:13 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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