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Irony of FaithThe fundamentalist Christian may look at the information in this website (or in the download paper) and say, “Maybe the information is based on reason and makes sense, but it is missing faith.” In most of the world religions, people are asked to believe in something that cannot be detected, seen, felt, heard, tasted, or smelled. They are asked to believe in something that doesn’t exist physically and can’t be proven in normal human experience. And when confronted with numerous, obvious discrepancies, the normal response is, “you must have faith.” Faith is the key to acceptance. Faith is the key to believing in concepts that cannot be explained. Obvious discrepancies in a religious premise, even in a theological sense, are explained away as mysteries, to be accepted without question. The believer is asked to have faith that an explanation exists that we simply cannot understand. Faith is all-important. That is – as long as it is your faith. Someone else’s faith different from your own becomes meaningless and misguided. How can people place so much importance on faith and then dismiss it when it is the faith of another religion? How can people claim their own faith is the basis for truth, but claim other people’s faith is flawed? |
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