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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (32898)	9/30/2001 3:47:09 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Faith is a four-letter word. Although you extol the virtues of faith when applied to your own belief system, you would probably not be so supportive of the faith of a Muslim. What about faith for a Mormon? A Buddhist? A Hindu? And yes, even atheists use faith. These other kinds of faith just help to lock people into worldviews that I'm sure you would consider harmful to their well-being. It is very fortunate for you to have found the one type of faith that is actually beneficial. Faith can make a man donate time and energy to helping others... (http://www.christianharbor.com/) And faith can also make a man fly a fully-loaded airliner into a building... (http://www.wtc.com/) Faith will tend to strengthen the beliefs of the person possessing it, by ignoring or even being fearful of information that would contradict those beliefs. Faith is not a respecter of persons, strengthening beliefs irregardless of the truth. I am sorry that I cannot remember the source of this quote: "Truth can only shine brighter in its collision with error." I might be providing the truth on this thread, and I might be providing the error. But either is both helpful and necessary. Any attempt to shy away from engagement is the sign of a belief system unworthy of faith.