RE: Hitler believed he was doing God's work!!
October 2, 2008 at 8:02 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2008 at 8:09 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Well IMO faith means strong belief that isn't supported by (atleast real) evidence.
And children often have strong belief with no evidence supporting it - just because they were brought up that way.
If you were brought up by devout christian parents you'll probably grow up to be a christian - if you were brought up a muslim you'll probablly grow up to be a muslim - if you were brought up a jew you'll probably grow up to be jewish - etc, etc, etc, same with hindus and all other children taught religiously to be religious.
The faith in children's minds can be inflated by their parents and teachers etc - IMO. And that faith is supported by the religion they are taught - so that faith grows - which makes the religion stronger - faith gets stronger - religion gets stronger -faith gets stronger - religion gets stronger -faith gets stronger - religion gets stronger - and so on. It's a slipperly slope....so it's often hard to break free from man made (or rather inflated) faith. But of course; it can be done.
And children often have strong belief with no evidence supporting it - just because they were brought up that way.
If you were brought up by devout christian parents you'll probably grow up to be a christian - if you were brought up a muslim you'll probablly grow up to be a muslim - if you were brought up a jew you'll probably grow up to be jewish - etc, etc, etc, same with hindus and all other children taught religiously to be religious.
The faith in children's minds can be inflated by their parents and teachers etc - IMO. And that faith is supported by the religion they are taught - so that faith grows - which makes the religion stronger - faith gets stronger - religion gets stronger -faith gets stronger - religion gets stronger -faith gets stronger - religion gets stronger - and so on. It's a slipperly slope....so it's often hard to break free from man made (or rather inflated) faith. But of course; it can be done.
