| JinxRake said: Question: How do you even give up something like faith? That's something that has always bothered me in this religion, the idea of giving up faith. If you believe, you believe, nothing will change that after all. Giving up faith is what...stopping prayer or going to church? Does that even matter in the scheme of things? |
Threat of death would usually persuade people to give up their faith. Such was the case with many people in decades and centuries past... I remember that one story where in a group of evengelists who ended up in Japan or something were forst to give up their faith in Jesus/God and were asked to walk over the cross that was the symble of the faith. If I remember correctly, many of those so called enangelists ended up walking over the cross while some who truely believed ended up dead.
Love of ones life usually trumps ones faith...like St. Peter... Jesus said that Peter would deny knowing him 3 times, and Peter said that it wasn't true and that he would die for Jesus...well, according to the bible, Peter did end up denying that he knew Jesus 3 times for fear for his own life... Of course, we all know that He did end up being the first Pope and got crussified too..
