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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Well, you seem take an irregular exception to the word faith. I don't believe in deities, but I do have faith in many things. Most of them having nothing to do with religion. Do you or do you not have faith in what you believe to be the truth?
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In the literal sense, yes. However, in a colloquial sense, some things in life you're so sure of that describing them using the term "faith" is simply inappropriate. Do you have faith that your door opens? Do you have faith that you can leave your house? Do you have faith that you can cross the street? No one talks like this...
If I may quote myself, let me show what started this part of the conversation and bring it to a full circle...
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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
It takes as much faith to not believe in God as it does to not believe in Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy.
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Even in the literal sense of the word "faith," this much is true...
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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Well, ustwo has been only respectful to me since I came here. It is not my intent to inflame or insult.
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You misunderstand me. I mean that we are all friends here and saying who said what is not inflammatory nor is it an insult...
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Last night's newst episode of South Park made a good point; Athiesm is no different than religion. They're just on opposite sides of the same specturm. It takes a certain amount of faith to claim that there is a God and it takes a certain amount of faith to claim that there isn't one.
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You're getting your religious philosophy from South Park? Considering how badly they've slammed
Mormonism,
Islam, and
Scientology, not to mention their regular pokes at all forms of
Christianity, I'd be shocked if the show ever had a serious message other than "it's funny, go ahead and laugh at it..."
If atheism and religion are on opposite sides of "the spectrum," then what sides are Christianity and Islam on this thing? The religions I've listed, so far, take far more "faith" to believe than the simple common sense notion of atheism...
Again, I am going to quote myself although, really, it will just be me repeating myself, but it is an especially meaningful response to this idea. Everyone is an atheist of the other guy's religion. Atheists only add one more religion to that list. How far apart can religion and atheism be on this "spectrum?"