(February 18, 2010 at 7:12 pm)tavarish Wrote:
I find it more honest to qualify your beliefs with knowledge than with blind faith, and that was my main point. They may claim all day they have faith, but without at least a little introspection or fact checking they shouldn't call that faith belief. They could be living in the spirit and have it exactly right and be qualified, but they're still living in blind faith. Justice is blind, religion is blind, why does everyone have such a hard time seeing? They are simply uninformed, not necessarily wrong. Leading a life based off faith alone usually leads to either zealousy, disbelief or self-righteous indignation, of which disbelief would be the lesser of the "evils"
(February 18, 2010 at 6:10 pm)tackattack Wrote: I do agree that we have a large problem with obesity though.I'll leave the politics out of it and we can agree on that then.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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