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Question for freethinkers
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You can call it what you like. You're saying I can't have doubts and faith, which I've shown is categorically wrong. My entire belief does not break from one moment of doubt, because doubt is an instance and belief is a collection of congruent and fortified instances. I will answer your question. I am as close to a gnostic 100% belief that God exists as I could get to anything. For instance I support the statement that If I know anything that is real or useful, it is that God exists. I equate my level/intensity of faith with my belief in gravity. I "know" if I throw an apple up it will fall, There are instances that could make that not happen (ie. in space or an anti-gravity chamber), but for all practical usefulness and purposes, the apple falls and God exists for me. I have instances of doubts just as it's possible for the apple not to fall, but there's a proven track record of personally reliable information supporting his existence for me.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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Question for freethinkers - by Pel - June 4, 2011 at 6:14 pm
RE: Question for freethinkers - by Violet - June 4, 2011 at 6:15 pm
RE: Question for freethinkers - by Darwinian - June 4, 2011 at 6:17 pm
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RE: Question for freethinkers - by Rev. Rye - June 5, 2011 at 11:44 am
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RE: Question for freethinkers - by Violet - June 4, 2011 at 6:41 pm
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RE: Question for freethinkers - by Faith No More - June 4, 2011 at 7:04 pm
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RE: Question for freethinkers - by Pel - June 4, 2011 at 9:03 pm
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