asaris

I've mentioned this before, and I'll mention this again, but statements like this are unhelpful and extremely condescending. There are certainly people who lose their faith as they grow up, but then again, there are people who come to faith as they grow up. To say one or the other stance is more 'mature' than the other, without offering any evidence for the claim, is just dumb. I'd respond to the rest of your post, but I didn't see any arguments, so it's not really worth my time.

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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."

"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche