RE: Question about "faith"
September 16, 2020 at 7:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2020 at 7:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure, that's a pretty straightforward substitution. The meaning remains the same, unlike replacing faith with trust or confidence - because I still don't do to my wife what you do to christ.
Or, for that matter, what any of the other billions of people who believe in an endless litany of gods do to their own.
What you guys have going, is different than what I have going. Don't you think?
*I think you got the tingly feeling head on too. There are all kinds of feelings, doesn't have to be tingly or in the stomach. In can be the experience of a deep inviolable and unrivaled conviction.
Oh ye of shallow, fragile, and fractious conviction, why do you doubt?
Or, for that matter, what any of the other billions of people who believe in an endless litany of gods do to their own.
What you guys have going, is different than what I have going. Don't you think?
*I think you got the tingly feeling head on too. There are all kinds of feelings, doesn't have to be tingly or in the stomach. In can be the experience of a deep inviolable and unrivaled conviction.
Oh ye of shallow, fragile, and fractious conviction, why do you doubt?
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