> Ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Doug Pensinger asked:
> > So I'm wondering for those of you with a belief
> >system that includes a
> > deity, is any part of the reason you believe in
God is that
> > you _can't_ bring yourself to put your faith in
humankind?
> Sort of, though not in the way you mean.
>
> Let me try and elaborate - I belive in God because I
> like the idea of
> someone having all the answers to all my questions.
> While that can be
> defined as having faith that my fellow humans
> wouldn't be able to help
> me out with that one, it could also be called a lack
> of faith in
> humankind. Personally, I think that is just realism.
<snip>
> To go back to the original question, about whether I
> have faith or not,
> I think I do. But it is neither a faith in God [that
> She is perfect and
> has a good, or a halfway decent, plan - She might
> but she really hasn't
> told me anything about it], nor in humanity as a
> whole. I put my faith
> in ideas, and in certain people. That is about it.
She also has a truly twisted sense of humor; I can see
why the Greeks and Romans envisioned drunken dieties.
My own faith or spirituality, also once abandoned,
returned (greatly altered!) more because of feelings/a
sense of that-which-connects-all, than by any
intellectual decision. To echo Ritu, there are good
ideas worth thinking, and good people worth following.
They are not exclusive to any one culture or group of
folk, although I'm rather biased towards Brin's
Otherness doctrine.
Debbi
That Line Of Pascal's (Even Though He Was In Some
Respects Not Worthy) Maru
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