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Originally posted by CSflim
Well, I would agree with you in a sense.
They are at peace with themselves. But their reasons for being so, are not necessarily correct ones. It is quite easy to convince oneself of the existence of God, and once you have that, and you devote your life to this cause, I can see how it would be easy to be "at peace".
I have seen this first hand. My aunt was years ago very very depressed. She was a mess. She is now a very religious person, and I know that it was her "faith" that allowed her to psychologically heal herself. It is in situations like this that I cannot claim to completely dispise religion. Her beliefs may be wrong, but if they allow her to get on with her life then what harm does it cause?
So having a faith has benifits, but that doesn't make it correct.
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Interesting that you have caught a glimpse, a tendril, a whisper, but that it is preferable, (perhaps safer?) to explain it away rather than explore it yourself.
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You still have not given me any evidence. You have made refference to evidence. Yuo have pointed out some consequences of religion, but you have given me no evidence, even of the non-experiemntal kind.
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Sigh...
You insist on distilling the breadth and depth of the faith experience to something akin to Letterman's Top Ten List, a process analagous in my mind to taking Beetoven's 9th Symphony and reducing it to its digital 1's and 0's in an attempt to understand the emotion it evokes in the mind and soul.
I'm sorry, but you will have to look elsewhere.
I sincerely wish you luck.