RE: Question about "faith"
September 16, 2020 at 6:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2020 at 7:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There are endless physiological expressions of faith John, and, not to put too fine a point on it, faith -is- a physiological expression. It's a feeling. The goal, at least for christians and other shamans, is to achieve an altered state and commune with the numinous. Hence the performative language about a christian walk being an interpersonal relationship with the divine, and all that nonsense.
You can see how this exceeds any non-novel use of the terms trust or confidence, I trust. Don't waste your time wondering how you can argue that this isn't a bad thing. I'm only concerned with showing that and how a christian faith is not at all like an atheist trust, or confidence. Not that it's bad, that it's different. Not the same.
There's more there, there, wouldn't you agree? Or would you assert that your christian faith is equivalent to trusting that your name is john? Having confidence that your name is John Knowing that your name is John. Believing that your name is John. Is your experienced and purported god fact, some simple fact like that? I think that there are alot of things in life that you have atheist trust and confidence in. Most things. You know them for mundane reasons which have nothing to do with any gods. I don't think that this could describe your christian faith, but you tell me.
Or, if you prefer, you may have surmised that atheists have trust and confidence in a great many things, pretty much all of the same things you do, I'd wager...but that this hasn't produced any faith for them?
You can see how this exceeds any non-novel use of the terms trust or confidence, I trust. Don't waste your time wondering how you can argue that this isn't a bad thing. I'm only concerned with showing that and how a christian faith is not at all like an atheist trust, or confidence. Not that it's bad, that it's different. Not the same.
There's more there, there, wouldn't you agree? Or would you assert that your christian faith is equivalent to trusting that your name is john? Having confidence that your name is John Knowing that your name is John. Believing that your name is John. Is your experienced and purported god fact, some simple fact like that? I think that there are alot of things in life that you have atheist trust and confidence in. Most things. You know them for mundane reasons which have nothing to do with any gods. I don't think that this could describe your christian faith, but you tell me.
Or, if you prefer, you may have surmised that atheists have trust and confidence in a great many things, pretty much all of the same things you do, I'd wager...but that this hasn't produced any faith for them?
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