From: "Christian Seberino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, March 28, 2007 10:50 am, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
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>>From: "Lan Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> "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."
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>>Not the way I want to live.
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> I've always wondered why religious people like faith, for just this
> reason.
> To me faith isn't a good thing- ignoring counterevidence and believing
> things with no evidence isn't laudible, its a sign of insanity. I take
> things on evidence and probability, not faith.
That is an incorrect definition of faith. Think of faith as a trust built
from many things including evidence.
Except that it isn't. Invariably, whenever you get down to it in a
religious discussion and try to get a believer to bring in evidence, they
fail and says "my faith tells me its so". That isn't belief built on
evidence, thats blind acceptance of certain tenets, with no evidence to
support it and frequently ignoring evidence to the contrary.
Gabe
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