Let's Talk About Religion

[That Guy]

WessleWoggle said:

Khuutra said:

WessleWoggle said:

That Guy said:

im_sneaky said:
I'm fine with being people being stupid, and I'm fine with people, stupid or not, trying to make other people stupid. So I don't have a problem with religious people trying to convert. To become religious, there must be a weak link in the first place.

I find that somewhat backhanded and offensive. Basically you're saying religious people = stupid. Its like you're saying, "I'm fine with people being stupid, so I don't have a problem with Republicans. There must be a weak link somewhere in the first place."

 

Sure there are religions out there with peculiarities, but let's not put everyone who is religious under the "stupid" umbrella.

I disagree, we should put all religious people under the stupid umbrella because they're all stupid for endorsing the man made plague known as religion.

In my opinion sneaky should have said ignorant, not stupid. You can hold faith based beliefs while remaining smart, but you can't hold them without being ignorant in some form or another.

Guys you are getting close to what I talked about in the OP.

I forgot, I'm sorry.

But I'm not trying to be offensive. It's a fact you have to be ignorant to hold a faith based belief, because faith is when you believe in something without any reason, and people with faith based beliefs are ignoring the fact that their belief has nothing to do with logic.

EDIT: I didn't see the above post by Louie before posting this. Also this post was meant to clarify, not offend.

 

 

no, what you just defined is credulity. Faith is always based on evidence. And it does not always have to do with religion either.

 

People put faith in the President to get us out of this recession. Why? Because he planned out something that sounded reasonable and based on his past record of service, we decide to put our trust, faith (and in turn, our votes) in order to enable him to carry out his plan.

However, if the President promised to cut taxes and then during his term he instead raised taxes, then we would quickly lose faith in him and would not trust him to do anything else right either.

Faith is not blind; it is very active, it grows or dies, and its always based on a record of past actions. Current actions that confirm the record of past actions of course would cause one's faith to grow. Actions that run contrary to the record of past actions obviously would case one's faith to die.