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Originally posted by Moonduck
He said, "I can't sway your views. You either feel it deep down, or you don't."
It was one of the most profound things I'd heard about faith...
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Jeez, that's the
most profound thing you ever heard about faith? Obviously, you were waiting to be swayed. I went through seven years of art school hearing people say that very same phrase, and it doesn't impress me any more now than it did then. Fuzzy thinking is fuzzy thinking.
It reveals itself in your comment about there being no comfort in atheism. You see, it
doesn't matter whether there is comfort in it or not. Just because the thought of a universe that is not designed soley for our edification scares you, doesn't make it not true. It might be a comforting thought to think that each and every government official has the best interests of the republic at heart, but it would be extremely naive, and perhaps suicidal to assume so.
In fact, watching a documentary about John Nash last night, I was struck by his description of madness as an escape. Noone could describe what he went through as pleasant, but his delusions that he was the center of a vast conspiriacy brought him a kind of comfort. Now, I'm not comparing religious faith to madness, just pointing out the unreliability of wanting something to be so.