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RE: What is Your Definition of Reasonable Faith?
February 24, 2017 at 4:29 pm
If someone was convinced enough to send money/time/effort to a particular sect or denom or schism, and that franchise outlet for 'God' had a sacred tome or book or scriptures of some sort, it would be reasonable to expect those adherents to be scrupulous in observing all those tenets of their faith, to the best of their abilities, particularly and especially if they believe there are items in their 'God' book they feel strongly even non-adherents should be following, even in cases where sizable minorities, and in some cases, majorities of those non-adherents, do not desire to.
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RE: What is Your Definition of Reasonable Faith?
February 24, 2017 at 7:58 pm
I don't know that you'd need to be an intellectual, or an expert in theistic matters, to have an opinion on that one. Say, instead of me paying my parking tickets...we string up a guy named Steve and beat the shit out of him? Steve's okay with it.
Does that sort of activity, or the sort of mindset than both normalizes and sanctifies that solution to the problem of my parking tickets inhibit human growth?
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RE: What is Your Definition of Reasonable Faith?
February 25, 2017 at 12:43 am
(February 24, 2017 at 2:48 am)ignoramus Wrote: Just quietly, I don't understand why any being powerful enough to be classified as a god would ever bother with us.
What exactly is so special about us to warrant the attention of said being?
Because He finds you more valuable than you do your own self. Also He loves you more than you love yourself.
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God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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