RE: Question about "faith"
September 22, 2020 at 11:41 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2020 at 11:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 22, 2020 at 11:20 am)tackattack Wrote: @The Grand Nudger @Fake Messiah @Sal - I have no problems disbelieving in fairies and unicorn, not from their lack of physical-ness, but because I haven't experienced them. If I woke up tomorrow and (without psycho-reactive drugs) started seeing faeries floating around or unicorns galloping, I would have to seriously rethink my beliefs on faeries and unicorns. Faith IS mundane, and that's the point, we all use it day-to-day, unless you're defining it as "religious faith" or "blind faith", which some people here are.
Just as atheist say they believe in one less God than I do, I just have faith in one more thing than they do.
You came in a bit late, but we've been discussing whether trusting that a chair will hold your ass and faith in god are the same thing. I suggest that they're not, that the latter is much more than the former. That I don't have or do whatever you have or do about god, to chairs. One is mundane, and the other, as you note, is not.
Every christian in this thread has insisted otherwise, and I can only conclude that every christian in this thread has an impoverished faith if they only get what they get out of a chair from their god. I'll say it again, something about bickering with atheists makes you people swirl the drain. Faith, which is apparently nothing more than what I think about chairs, has broken you.
Doesn't do that to everyone.
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