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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (39146)	8/20/2005 3:49:35 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"I am firmly of the belief that no religion is rationally based. If any particular religious persuasion is more logically compelling than any other, then that fact should be logically demonstrable." The logical contradictions you perceive are between knowledge and faith, the revealed and the believed, the known and the imagined. If you seek you may find, and doors do not open to those unwilling to knock. Yet without faith we lose hope in what we may come to know beyond the next door. If we cannot believe in the eternal and complete justice of existence, we also find no purpose in struggling with circumstance revealed before us. Without imagination the known lacks the possibility found in the roots of hope. Religions are the external expressions of faith in the eternal and unlimited; at best, third hand accounts of other people's experience. The rationale for belief is not external however. So, what you know in your heart through self evidence may be confirmed in scripture and the lamp of existence is lit through your capacity to believe. As you deny your heart and as you are only able to believe in the insidious evil underlying scriptural guidance, that lamp remains very dark.