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| | | | Can faith be made equivalent to truth?
If so, how do varying faiths compare when they come into conflict with each other? Do the faiths become any less true because they clash, and some might have their faith waiver? |
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| | | | faith is the truth of the believer
"To know, is to know you know nothing."
-Confucius |
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| | | | What is truth? Coherent, non-self defeating assertions that correspond with reality?
Take for example the quote from Confucious. Isn't that statement self-defeating?
Truth has to be exclusive, objective and not based on choice or feelings.
Faith is a choice.
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The depravity of man is at once the most unpopular of the Christian doctrines and yet the most empirically verifiable. - Malcolm Muggeridge |
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| | | | Truth is...What you say it is. It is often confused with strong opinion.
Only taken strictly in a literal sense.
Indeed.
I disagree. Faith is a necessity for humanity. It helps define that inner self, the, "soul." Without faith, we are little more than clever animals with big guns.
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| | | | | faith is believing something with no empirical evidence. |
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| | | | I agree with skywatcher, though not Saviour.
Please elaborate further. How is it that faith is not wanting to know what is true, instead of an affirmation of what one believes to be made truth? Man's method of bridging the gap between truth and opinion?
Indeed, a good deal of gods are vengeful and angry, but what of the varying concepts of heaven, nirvana, enlightenment, internal bliss, etc. etc. which are usually attributed to God as either a reward or some personal elation which has been, in some way, been influenced by one deity or another? |
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| | | | Your~Anointed~Saviour (5/27/2008)
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Man cannot live alone in this world he has created and instead fashions a religion by projecting his fears and potential suffering into a god. Which in itself is a lie
Atheism: requires more faith than any religious belief system.
Man cannot live with that fact that he hasn't created anything, despite where the evidence leads, and so continues to construct lies that place him at the center of an innocuous vacuum, in order to continue and justify an existence of stupid self-indulgence.
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The depravity of man is at once the most unpopular of the Christian doctrines and yet the most empirically verifiable. - Malcolm Muggeridge |
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