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To: vladimir998

You posted: To question and challenge can be to attack to some. If you are challenging someone’s deeply held faith in a false religion, challenging its basic beliefs and assumptions, how can it not be viewed as an attack by the person who holds the belief?
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If it is done in the spirit of love I believe many (not all, sadly) will understand and not see it as an attack. That does not mean they will be persuaded, of course. And, in matters of faith, force really is not effective, no matter how high the stakes. One must believe because one believes, not because another insists on that belief.


410 posted on 01/24/2011 10:01:42 AM PST by NCLaw441 (I before E except after C, or when sounded as A in neighbor and weigh. Isn't that WEIRD?)
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NCLaw If it is done in the spirit of love I believe many (not all, sadly) will understand and not see it as an attack. That does not mean they will be persuaded, of course. And, in matters of faith, force really is not effective, no matter how high the stakes. One must believe because one believes, not because another insists on that belief.

well put, I agree with your sentiments and post.
415 posted on 01/24/2011 2:19:37 PM PST by Cronos (Bobby Jindal 2012)
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