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TriTorch's avatar

It's all good brother, i once believed as you do. I cannot imagine how, but who knows, maybe one day i'll go back to believing as you do. It's a faith thing, something I once mocked, and now I revere.

It's just a rollercoaster ride as Bill Hicks said. Whatever comes next, comes next. In the meantime, my belief helps bring out the best in me and gives me comfort. I hope your beliefs do the same for you. It's all good.

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Dennis Merwood's avatar

I have faith that farting pixies live in the bottom of my garden.

And I have as much evidence for my claim as you have that Jeebus was divine.

Faith is not a reliable pathway to Truth.

There is NOTHING one cannot believe based on faith.

Knowledge is not something you simply assert; knowledge is demonstrated.

If I get on an aeroplane and the pilot says he’s using faith to fly us; I’m getting off. Only in religion is faith considered knowledge.

Imagine doctors performing a surgery doing their operation based on faith.

Not even religious based hospitals have a faith healer on their staff.

All my knowledge is based on evidence and rational thinking.

You are lying if you say you don't do likewise. IE when crossing the road.

There is only one place you don't rely on evidence and rational thinking.

When it comes to the divine. Thats why you can believe all this bullshit.

Sorry, for me at this point pretending to respect people’s religious beliefs is an exercise in futility. I do not respect people who CHOOSE to be gullible and uneducated - and try to foist that nonsense onto me.

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