10-26-2005, 01:02 PM
This is an amazing can of worms I fired up with a simple comment.
I think about faith all the time and I've pretty much divorced the idea of faith from religion at this point in my head. The part that I was referring to about it being a good thing is the peace of mind that comes with having faith in something that gives a person to live.
The idea of having faith in ones self is very important to me and am most depressed in life when I lose sight of that.
Having people using other peoples faith to manipulate society either through politics or terrorism (which is actually a form of politics) drives me crazy to no end. Seeing that I'm so full of sayings this brings up one of my core beliefs "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins". If someone believes that happiness lay in the act of smearing themselves with yellow paint and waving boiled pasta over their head then I envy their simple happiness (I also keep a good distance because I think they're freaks).
Reading this thread in more detail I realize that most of the negatives I've seen here have to do with people using blind faith as a tool to push their own agenda. It sounds like organized churches have become nothing more than giant tool boxes that preaches blind faith over thinking through what you believe. I'm sure there are exceptions to this but I'm afraid they are exceptions themselves rather than the rule.
I think about faith all the time and I've pretty much divorced the idea of faith from religion at this point in my head. The part that I was referring to about it being a good thing is the peace of mind that comes with having faith in something that gives a person to live.
The idea of having faith in ones self is very important to me and am most depressed in life when I lose sight of that.
Having people using other peoples faith to manipulate society either through politics or terrorism (which is actually a form of politics) drives me crazy to no end. Seeing that I'm so full of sayings this brings up one of my core beliefs "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins". If someone believes that happiness lay in the act of smearing themselves with yellow paint and waving boiled pasta over their head then I envy their simple happiness (I also keep a good distance because I think they're freaks).
Reading this thread in more detail I realize that most of the negatives I've seen here have to do with people using blind faith as a tool to push their own agenda. It sounds like organized churches have become nothing more than giant tool boxes that preaches blind faith over thinking through what you believe. I'm sure there are exceptions to this but I'm afraid they are exceptions themselves rather than the rule.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.