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Originally Posted by Halx
I personally find the belief in a god.. let alone the practice of religion.. to be quite ridiculous. I look at everything that happens in every-day life and I just cannot envision or recognize any force in play other than the ones I learned about in physics, psychology and sociology. There is no other factor that makes me go "hmm" nor is there any voice in my head that I do not attribute to my own self. The very same things that happen to me also happen to people of faith, so what's the deal?
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That's the point of Faith Hal no need for proof, in fact if there was proof it wouldn't be faith - I respect people who manage that degree of faith and beleive in some abstract notion of a higher power, I certainly can't do it and used to believe these people were deluding themselves in some way, I still find the idea that somebody can beleive so much in one definition of a god to the exlusion of all other definitions, since different religions don't sit side by side very easily, difficult to rationalize to myself. But then I think I'm missing something, it's my failing that I can't prescribe that level of faith to myself.