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levgre  Posts: 606
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I'm not saying all religion is stupid or that faith can't be intelligent... but some of it seems so far-fetched.
Like hell and the rapture, it's so blatant as a fear-mongering control device.
And then you have wars between angels, Noah's Ark, Garden of Eden, and so much more.
It just seems to all be too much.
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HeartView  Title: Be right back...
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Belief in religion is no different than belief in anything else you cannot prove directly yourself. You may not pray to a god but you take things on "faith" daily. Every time you hear something from a friend that you trust and accept it as fact (or at least don't question it) then you might as well be practicing religion. Consider religion as proof from within.
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HeartView posted:
Belief in religion is no different than belief in anything else you cannot prove directly yourself. You may not pray to a god but you take things on "faith" daily. Every time you hear something from a friend that you trust and accept it as fact (or at least don't question it) then you might as well be practicing religion. Consider religion as proof from within.
nicely put
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JD_HOGG Posts: 2,846
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Same reason people believe in science tales.
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jonus156 Posts: 906
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pkhere posted:
HeartView posted:
Belief in religion is no different than belief in anything else you cannot prove directly yourself. You may not pray to a god but you take things on "faith" daily. Every time you hear something from a friend that you trust and accept it as fact (or at least don't question it) then you might as well be practicing religion. Consider religion as proof from within.
nicely put
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Cao_Ren  Title: Archmaster
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levgre posted:
I'm not saying all religion is stupid or that faith can't be intelligent... but some of it seems so far-fetched.
Like hell and the rapture, it's so blatant as a fear-mongering control device.
And then you have wars between angels, Noah's Ark, Garden of Eden, and so much more.
It just seems to all be too much.
Oh, I absolutely admit that there is no scientific proof for this sort of thing. It's just a gut feeling.
Also, you have to realize that a lot of stuff in the Bible - especially the old testament - is either a metaphor/allegory, or something that probably happened on a much smaller scale (like Noah's Ark. I mean...40 days and 40 nights of rain? Hell, we get double that in Seattle most winters, you don't see me out there collecting animals)
Although...with a garden hose and some sandbags, I might be able to trick Ticky into mating with me... 
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iknowrite .. like threatening to burn a book half way around the world justifies dozens of people getting murdered. and the person threatening to burn the book has to apologize for the murders. they just must be uneducated no good knuckle dragers.
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HeartView posted:
Belief in religion is no different than belief in anything else you cannot prove directly yourself. You may not pray to a god but you take things on "faith" daily. Every time you hear something from a friend that you trust and accept it as fact (or at least don't question it) then you might as well be practicing religion. Consider religion as proof from within.
religion is not only something you cannot prove directly, it is something that you can't disprove. every time i talk to a friend i have experience with that person to draw upon that tells me he/she is reliable. unlike religion, he/she could be proven wrong if the friend said something incorrect. unless the friend was saying how awesome God was. then we would be trapped in some kind of confusing cycle.
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levgre Posts: 606
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HeartView posted:
Belief in religion is no different than belief in anything else you cannot prove directly yourself. You may not pray to a god but you take things on "faith" daily. Every time you hear something from a friend that you trust and accept it as fact (or at least don't question it) then you might as well be practicing religion. Consider religion as proof from within.
Yeah but the difference is I don't take something I hear from a friend and base tremendously important beliefs off of it, like that I could face an eternity of pain once I die.
My point being that they may both be faith of some kind (although I don't flat out assume whatever my friends say is true), but the religious faith is definitely being used very differently.
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