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To: Ilaine who wrote (222495)	3/5/2007 8:38:24 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 281500

There is no such thing as a "Faith in God"; there is only leap of faith in what you think God wants of you. However you slice it, leaps of faith boil down to following your understanding of holly scriptures (or your gut feeling, in case you are gnostic or something alike) to the exclusion of all else. If you are a fundamentalist and believe in the literal truth of your scriptures, it is easier to have faith in your understanding of what God wants you to do. If on the other hand you allow for mistakes, be it at the source in the scriptures or be it in the interpretations of the "hidden meanings", then it is much harder to make a leap of faith. Taking the leap is always about the strength of your beliefs in your understandings rather than about the strength of your belief in God. I agree with you that it is wrong to force others to believe as you do. I equally agree with you that even if the books are perfect, our understanding of them can never be perfect. A good example to see this, is to take religion out of it and see how many ways one can understand the sentence "The Grand Central Station is the greatest train station in the world". That sentence could mean: GCS is the largest (area) in the world GCS has the highest number of passenger GCS has the greatest number of destinations GCS has the highest train departure rates GCS is an architectural marvel GCS has the best customer service etc... A person who fears the unknown too much and wants stability (even a "wrong" stability over none), will not bother to see the shades of gray or allow for the possibility of alternate paths/meanings. They will just believe in their own righteousness and put all their might behind seeing their interpretation to come through. The more "liberal" or intellectually minded amongst us do not have such a luxury and as a result they often lose the fight because often they cannot muster strong enough faith in their position, or even if they do, they cannot articulate it as clearly to the masses. ST

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