(April 26, 2012 at 10:56 pm)C Rod Wrote: "unquestioning obedience and mindless worship"
What a presumption of the christian faith. I don't think you could find one believer that was positive and wholly sure of his belief and faith. You couldn't, they would be liars. We all struggle and can always contend with the opposite of faith and even reason, we all do it. Most of who we are and how were brought up is based on missed impulses and mimetic desire. I think it comes down to curiosity and what you find because of it but it is just an emotion as well. I think you should rule it out because you think you have to stop thinking and living life, it just comes down to how curious you are about what really is true.
Ofcourse, they wouldn't be wholly sure. They still have brains, don't they? Whatever rationality is left within them cries out against the irrational and contradictory dogma they have been taught. That doesn't change what your god asks of them.
Its like watching a dying fire. Whatever embers of intelligence that are left flare out once in a while as doubt and curiosity - little flashes of light trying to see and understand the actual reality beyond the blinders of faith. But soon enough, this momentary flame is put out by the dogmatic blanket of faith you fundies cloak yourself in do proudly - deceiving yourself that you have found the truth whilst robbing yourself of your only means of finding it.
