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Originally Posted by Thee Alex
I was brought up as a fundamentalist believer, and I believed it for a LONG time. Then I woke up and realised it was nonsense.
In my opinion people who believe things that are clearly untrue ARE idiots and fools. If I told you I believed in Father Christmas would you nod sagely and say 'I respect that' or would you laugh me out of the building?
But when the main (only) source of your information for that 'faith' is a book that you admit is fallible surely your faith is blind?
Yes it is, and that's because people are dicks. I just wish they'd stop using the excuse that 'God told me to do it' and 'fess up to their own dickishness.
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Im sorry you had shit forced on you, that sucks ass. But its one thing to be bitter about it, another to be insulting.
Do i believe that a carpenter son born some 2000 years ago to an alleged virgin was both the Son and the physical mmanifestation of God. Yes i do.
Do i blindly believe everything i read in the bible. Fuck no.
Faith cant be explained in that way. You can read and study all your life and never be able to explain what how you come by this opinion.
Im well aware that there are many glaring holes in the 'organised' church. For one thing, there are numerous different sects each with their own beleif structures...and a large amount of accepted church dogma is merely different pagan beliefs and Arianism - such as Christ being born on 25th december.
But Faith is someothing one comes to accept. It truely is nigh on impossible to explain. Some people cant accept that others do not beleive the same thing they do and go ape shit about it. Hell, we see it on this forum every week from tastes in music to political ideologies.
I cannot and would not try and proove to you or anyone else that God or The Gods exist for sure 100% because i cant. Simple as that, there is no hard solid evidence. But in the exact same way you cant prove to me that they dont either as there is no way to do so.
That is the conundrum.
