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Originally Posted by cellophanedeity
Unfortunately, I've noticed that devoutly religious people don't seem to do this as often anymore. Even in these forums, I occasionally find people supporting their philosophical beliefs with no more than quotations from their religious texts or prophets. In my opinion, this is poor philosophy, and I wish for these people to strive for more.
I believe that if people were to consider their beliefs beyond their books and were able to provide explainations beyond quotations and references, then perhaps we would get along a bit better.
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Cello - I think that you and others on this thread are missing a great opportunity to try and understand what faith means to people and the true nature of religion.. You are asking the ideals of something very personal, and then pull away the tools for them to effectively talk about it. Similar maybe to asking you what love means to you, but then saying, "I don't want to hear about your family or relationships though. Everybody always brings up family and relationships and I don't like my family."
You can have some great conversations with really intelligent people and instead of a debate to be won (I am the worst at this) try to imagine what they feel and why. Even if you can't agree on how to debate the issue with them, appreciating the rules they play the game by is a good exercise to discipline your own philosophical inqueries. The respect we give others always describes our nature more than we could ever describe someone else...
