(January 3, 2013 at 4:12 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: I'm far from certain, I would actually believe that its likely many have come out of some form or religious background and through some process or other lost faith. But i don't believe that it can't be regained and ( don't start screaming at me every time I mention Bible ) there are several stories in the bible where Christ for whatever reason made some people work a little harder before he helped them. Even the chosen people had to endure 40 days in the desert before they got to the promised land.
Well, you may see it as a "loss of faith," but we see it as an acceptance of reality and reason. To get someone that has come to that conclusion to reconsider their postion you are going to have to appeal to reason, not appeal to them to reexamine faith, which is essentially an appeal to emotion, and using your emotions to determine truth is a failing endeavor.
As for God making some work harder than others, does that seem fair? You and I both have the same risk, the fate of our eternal soul, but for some reason he may require me to put in more effort? Did you ever stop to think that such stories are a ploy to keep the credulous from admitting that their search for god has yielded no results?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
