will ever put a gun to your head and force you to believe. I’m shocked by how angry and hateful atheists get at their fellow pedes who bring up prayer or faith. You are acting exactly like liberals, going in to a post just to hate-reply. It’s sad. All we are doing is praying snd encouraging others to pray. If you don’t want to, that’s fine. There’s no need to harass those who want to. We are all on the same team here.
Where i used to work, a group of people got together by the flagpole every day at lunch. They didn’t demand anyone join them. They didn’t force the company to make prayer mandatory. They just got together and prayed, and everyone else moved on about their day.
There’s no need for the infighting. God bless
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You are absolutely correct on the definition of faith.
And this IS the definition that I am talking about.
There are plenty of reasons someone might be convinced about something, be it politics or religion or otherwise.
The danger is in looking at what you consider evidence and how you might expect that to inform someone.
As i probably should have said this in my original post, This is not an attack on believers.
This is a warning that taking something personally convincing (personal experience and holy book in this case), and expecting that this should suffice for others, is dangerous.
There are many religions who have conviction in their lives, hope and expectations. These in and of themselves are not innately bad.
Personal experience and inspired writings are claims made in good faith by many people, in many traditions. This is also fine.
The danger is when this personal conviction is mistaken for absolute truth in what the convictions are about. (Again, not saying this is what you are doing, just that this is the danger with faith. Yes, this means atheists fall in this too cough dawkins cough)
My original point is that:
I disagree with the painting of the opposition as irrational angst (even when they act like it).
There are legitimate concerns when discussing faith as a virtue. All sides can fall to it, but I targeted the post at theism in general because religion are the ones who promote faith itself as something to want. This is seeking conviction over substance. That’s the unhealthy bit.
That being said, I have no way of knowing how you live your life, or what you think, etc. so these critiques are an attack on the concepts in general, not anyone or any brand in particular.
Thanks for the comment and thanks for not telling me to fuck myself. I genuinely enjoy these things :D
Cheers!