On Wed, March 28, 2007 3:26 am, DJA wrote: > We have no original manuscripts and we certainly have no witnesses. So > that leaves one thing with regards to the basis for the Christian > religion: faith. And faith is what one has when facts are not available. > It's a placeholder for knowledge. It's ignorance in denial. Holy > guessing. I have no desire to take away the comfort of someone's > religion, but for myself, I prefer knowledge, and lacking that I embrace > my ignorance as it gives me great comfort that I have much more to > learn. I don't ever want to know everything.
Actually, Paul himself gave, to my way of thinking, one of the most poetically beautiful and factually accurate definitions of faith I've ever read. I gave a quick search for the quote, but couldn't find it, and I don't want to butcher the language. I'm betting contributors to this thread know which quote I'm talking about. But as DJA points out, the paraphrase of Paul's definition works out to: "Faith is the firm belief in things for which we have absolutely no evidence, and the rejection of all evidence to the contrary of these things." Not the way I want to live. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
