(October 1, 2014 at 11:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(October 1, 2014 at 11:11 pm)Hezekiah Wrote: I agree there is a difference between what I believe and what is true. But I believe that it is true for me.Truth is not a vanity plate. There is no list of what is true with your name on it, just for you. You're equivocating, perhaps unintentionally, between various usages of the word.
Quote:That was a promise, not a suggestion.Rephrase? I'm not doubting your sincerity. Merely explaining that if you are sincere in the one claim, the other cannot simultaneously be true. When people give you shit about integrity - this is is the sort of thing they are referring to Hez. People are assuming that you're smart enough to have realized this without any help - but just in case, when you've gone down this route, people have taken the time to lay it out for you. -And yet you persist......
Quote:I don't know much about the Odin god to say accurately. But assuming it's nothing like the Christian God I'd answer, no.Then the existence of a god is not a requirement for faith. There are people who do have faith in Odin. In the same way, the existence of god is not required for your faith. Not in Asatru, not in christianity, and not - specifically, to you.
Ah! I think see what you mean! (Correct me if I'm wrong but) You're saying faith does not have to be put in the existence of god, Asatru, Christianity or myself in order to exist. Faith simply is?
And I'm sorry I come across with poor integrity. I thought integrity had to do with being honest with you and myself. I'm trying to be open and honest, I just think I'm not doing a good job at communicating my thought process.