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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12146)	2/23/2000 4:06:00 PM
From: Enam Luf	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

ok, this i getting just a tad off topic, but this is a serious question, I am asking out of genuine curiousity as this manner of thinking is so foreign to me. I am the type who questions everything... <<Do I ever consider my faith is wrong or displaced? no. >> How you believe something without examining its premises. How can u accept something without carefully considering why? How can you be so sure as to not doubt yourself (isn't that in some way arrogant?). How can one begin to learn without asking what if..? We use reason every minute of every day (for this discussion, even), our entire way of life revolves around it. Why should this one issue be considered off limits? It simply makes no sense to me and I can't imagine that in one's deepest moments, in the middle of the night, the most basic human doubts don't creep in... and make u think, "parhaps i am wrong, hmmmm" I almost have to think that they do but some weird form of OCD prevents the faithful from ever admitting to it lest in their minds they'll be damned to hell... If one really shuns these thoughts out, what other thoughts are being shut out? Is it an aversion to truth? If you really believed, questioning ones belief should pose no threat, so why not? BTW, our founding fathers may have been religious to a certain extent, but they were also a fairly hedonistic bunch. I think what they realized that escapes so many today is that u really can't take yourself to seriously. Also, though I am partly jewish by blood (agnostic by belief) I hold the extreme segments of the jewish religion to the same standard. -enam