On Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:58:10 AM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 Roger Clough <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > > > Theology is based on faith > > > I understand that theology is based on faith, what I don't understand is > why faith is supposed to be a virtue. > > I'm actually with you on this JC, although mainly because by faith I think most people really mean hope. Screw hope. To me faith is just about being ok with things even if they don't seem ok right now. It's more of a patience or benefit of the doubt which we can access to get us through days where we don't see how its going to work out.
> > and moral practice. >> > > Then why is the history of religion a list of one atrocity after another? > When people mistake the subjective for objective, or objective for subjective, the result is often pathological. Craig > > John K Clark > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/owEsWWNCbJYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
