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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (38424)	10/11/2003 12:45:06 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

GZ, Both sides of the discussion are limited, but I do not believe in "blind" faith. If God intended us to believe blindly, in anything, why have we been allowed to grow such inquisitive brains? That appears to be a contradiction, and I can't believe that God would contradict Himself. Unfortunately, there are many contradictions that can be found in the bible, as there are many contradictions in scientific theories. I have always wondered why God would give a commandment to Moses the "though shall not kill" in Exodus 20/21, and then turn around and give Moses a detailed list of people to kill in order to reach the land of milk and honey in Leviticus. That just does not make sense to me. As long as logic is not considered to be the final answer, I see no harm in applying it to thinking. I recognize the frailty of any belief, but do not accept the belief of anything based on a book written by men. I guess that is a reflection of what I have seen done, and said, over many years, that many people take as an absolute. I don't deny, and do believe, in the presence of a divine deity, but in a different way than some others. The universe, including the planet earth, could not have come into existence by accident. Something cannot come from nothing. There must be a power, IMO, that is the controlling factor in all that exists in this universe.