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Clerics who lose their faith

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Clerics who lose their faith
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RE: Clerics who lose their faith
August 6, 2014 at 1:15 pm
(August 3, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Shortly after beginning work in Calcutta's slums, the spirit left Mother Teresa.

"Where is my faith?" she wrote. "Even deep down… there is nothing but emptiness and darkness... If there be God — please forgive me."
Wasn't it her belief that suffering was a good thing? So why was she asking god for relief from her suffering? Shouldn't she have welcomed her spiritual pain as a gift from the lord?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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Clerics who lose their faith - by Diablo - August 3, 2014 at 2:45 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Minimalist - August 3, 2014 at 3:20 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Tonus - August 6, 2014 at 1:15 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by FlyingNarwhal - August 3, 2014 at 3:32 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by vorlon13 - August 3, 2014 at 4:36 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by FlyingNarwhal - August 3, 2014 at 5:02 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by xpastor - August 4, 2014 at 6:33 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Fidel_Castronaut - August 3, 2014 at 4:52 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Violet - August 6, 2014 at 12:16 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Diablo - August 3, 2014 at 4:57 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by FlyingNarwhal - August 3, 2014 at 5:04 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Thackerie - August 3, 2014 at 4:59 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Diablo - August 3, 2014 at 5:14 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Dystopia - August 3, 2014 at 5:00 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by RobbyPants - August 5, 2014 at 10:27 am
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Hunafae!i - August 3, 2014 at 5:03 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by vorlon13 - August 3, 2014 at 5:03 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Dystopia - August 3, 2014 at 5:19 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by vorlon13 - August 3, 2014 at 5:24 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Dystopia - August 3, 2014 at 5:31 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by ignoramus - August 4, 2014 at 1:25 am
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Mudhammam - August 4, 2014 at 4:55 am
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by John V - August 4, 2014 at 8:06 am
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Thumpalumpacus - August 4, 2014 at 8:44 am
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Aractus - August 4, 2014 at 9:58 am
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Mister Agenda - August 4, 2014 at 5:25 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Oldm8 - August 4, 2014 at 6:58 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by xpastor - August 6, 2014 at 12:08 pm
RE: Clerics who lose their faith - by Diablo - August 6, 2014 at 1:34 pm

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