Faith and Works

[Mudhammam]

Actually you like most religious or not default to a general comfirmation bias and seek to plug in anything that supports what you already believe and ignore the rest.

Which is very ironic given this is what Christians are accused of doing all the time.. Just FYI this is a human condition and not limited to Christianity.

I do my best to be sincere and open-minded to all considerations, actively seeking opposing points of view and disavowing dogmas when I am able (if empiricism is a dogma, it seems the very definition of sensible enough), and as a result I see no reasonable path of reconciliation to this idea of faith that Christianity relishes.

[Drich]

Actually you like most religious or not default to a general comfirmation bias and seek to plug in anything that supports what you already believe and ignore the rest.

Which is very ironic given this is what Christians are accused of doing all the time.. Just FYI this is a human condition and not limited to Christianity.

I do my best to be sincere and open-minded to all considerations, actively seeking opposing points of view and disavowing dogmas when I am able (if empiricism is a dogma, it seems the very definition of sensible enough), and as a result I see no reasonable path of reconciliation to this idea of faith that Christianity relishes.

That's the thing with a command. One does not have to understand it, to follow it

[Mudhammam]

I do my best to be sincere and open-minded to all considerations, actively seeking opposing points of view and disavowing dogmas when I am able (if empiricism is a dogma, it seems the very definition of sensible enough), and as a result I see no reasonable path of reconciliation to this idea of faith that Christianity relishes.

That's the thing with a command. One does not have to understand it, to follow it

A command implies a commander, and the only commanders I see clearly are other men like yourself, whom I bare no obligation to follow beyond the wits of reason.

[Drich]

That's the thing with a command. One does not have to understand it, to follow it

A command implies a commander, and the only commanders I see clearly are other men like yourself, whom I bare no obligation to follow beyond the wits of reason.

In any command their are those who issue order and those who simply relay the message.
Don't confuse the messenger with the originator of the message.

[Chad32]

It's a little hard not to confuse the messenger with the originator of the message, when the messenger can't produce the originator.

[Mudhammam]

Don't confuse the messenger with the originator of the message.

Agreed. Don't miss the forest for the trees.