(April 6, 2014 at 6:41 pm)Deidre32 Wrote:(April 6, 2014 at 5:36 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: One minute religious claims never change, the next they're always changing
If you only had a feeling that what you believed was truth, then no wonder you think faith is groundless. My faith is rationalised.
Rampant : you seem to be scared to address me directly. Nothing you write following any of my posts is remotely pertinent to me or anything that I've said here on AF. That's called trolling.
Your definition of "rational" is clearly different than what it actually means thus, changing the goal posts. Faith isn't rational no more than believing that the tooth fairy or big foot actually exist. It isn't rational to believe in hearsay stories that have never been proven to be true. The Bible isn't proof that your god exists. It only seems that way because you have rationalized it as such.
But to those who believe in such things, they will attempt to "rationalize" if only to themselves.
You're proving my point about a strawman game.
And you don't know me, and you have no idea what my thoughts about faith were. You are not better than atheists because you choose to believe in a deity.
No, I think my definition of "rational" is exactly the same as yours. What we define differently is faith.
I quoted you exactly and based my observations on your own words. I'm not belittling your faith as you held it. I'm saying it's nothing like what I understand faith to be. And exactly what I understand superstition to be.
Branding me with your own understanding, which I've already pointed out is different to mine, is meaningless.
If there's a straw man it's the one you're forcing me to wear.
You don't seem to want to accept that there could be actual reason for theists to believe in God. That's incorrect.
