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Originally Posted by tecoyah
I have actually used "take it on faith" replies as an understanding that a conversation is over.
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Snarl. The reason i say that is that while perhaps some people are done talking at that point...most aren't. The bible isn't a self-interpreting document, nor is any belief system transparent to outsiders.
There are times when a persons has to interpret according to their values...say for instance if someone is trying to force the judgement of a particular faith upon them. But there are other times when we are best served by simply trying to understand the motivations and logic of the other.
One of the most intelligent discussions of this idea that i've seen so far, is in "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card. Worth a read for fiction's sake as well...but has a discussion of how we classify strangers according to what we see, and not what they are.