Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (84797)	9/16/2008 11:16:53 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541663

Syb - The problem I see with the use of the word "faith" is that, for a lot of religious people, what it effectively means is "the unquestioning acceptance of a set of beliefs." I realize that not all religious people think the same way, and that this doesn't apply to them all. But it does seem to be a prevalent view. I recall a conversation I had with a former colleague about religion. I said that since there were many religions that all claimed to be the "one, true religion," and since they couldn't all be that, it made little sense to pick any one of them. I said that it didn't seem to me that any faith had a more compelling claim than any other. He got huffy, and rather defensively said, "I guess you just stick with what you're raised with." Some people claim that they know "The Truth" because they have decided that things that are currently unknown can be explained by believing in what is essentially magic. I think such people are just being stubborn. sciencecartoonsplus.com - Allen PS: And don't get me started about people who believe that things that are, in fact, currently known, are incorrect because they don't jibe with some magical explanation they've accepted.