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To: Quix
I have no faith.
833 posted on 01/05/2002 4:10:54 AM PST by LuvItOrLeaveIt
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To: LuvItOrLeaveIt
I have no faith.
Yeah ya do!

You have faith that the god of the bible doesn't exist, for you cannot prove that he doesn't.

835 posted on 01/05/2002 4:21:49 AM PST by Elsie
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To: LuvItOrLeaveIt
YOU said:

I have no faith.

That statement is utter nonsense to me. You couldn't live or function well at all without faith.

You have faith the sun will come up tomorrow. You have faith you'll still be breathing 10 minutes from now or 5 miles further down the road. You have faith the big Mack truck will stop at the red light. You have faith you'll PROBABLY be able to get your money at the bank when you need it. You have faith the food you eat is reasonably safe. You have faith people who seem to like you today are likely to continue liking you tomorrow. You have faith that the skills that serve you so well today will likely serve you well next week. You may even have faith [probably rather shaken after Billdo and Shrillery] that at least some government people would like to see the nation continue. You have faith that your computer will function the next time you boot it. You may have faith that you'll get some thrill the next time you have sexual relations. You have faith that when you go to brush your teeth, your neural pathways will function right and you won't poke your eye out. You have a kind of faith that the government will take too much of your income in taxes. You have a kind of faith that people like Billdo and Shrillery will go on being destructive.

You probably have a faith that you won't find any philosophical/religious cause for a valid cosmology including a created origin for man and the universe as we know it.

However, all of the above are probabilities.

We think we know enough to predict the sun's survival well beyond our lifetimes. But that is faith in our own brilliance about an object that could well have a few secrets left undiscovered by our distant eyes.

In a world made-up primarily of uncertainties--probabilities at best--FAITH is an absolute necessity to avoid despairing or at least dysfunctional synaptic catatonic immobility.

You have evidently chosen to invest your faith in a construction on reality that you probably believe affords you more options, more choice. I happen to believe that the targets of your faith investments even now and certainly ultimately will devastatingly restrict your choices to fewer and fewer options.

983 posted on 01/06/2002 12:36:50 AM PST by Quix
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