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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I suppose it would not really be a fair comparison for me to note that 39 of 39 Heaven's Gate members were willing to die for what they believed, which would be pretty stupid if they knew there was not, in fact, a UFO accompanying the Hale-Bopp comet. But, I'll mention it anyway.
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PLF,
You can no more argue non-belief to a believer than you can train your cat to take a shower. All Churches have built into their creeds the notion that the central most important aspect of belief is believing depsite lack of proof, i.e, "That its so unbelievable yet you still believe is evidence that its a truly divine belief." Its the only way a religion can hadge aginst scrutiny which would otherwise prove it a somewhat foolish endeavor from a strictly logical perspective. Of course, if one should argue logic and science against religion, the comeback is always "Well, you can't prove it didn't happen." True, but I can make a logical decision to disbleieve based on the likelihood that certain supernatural events did not happen in the past. To that, the religios argue "Well, you must take it on faith." Faith is of course religion's ultimate escape hatch - the utterly indefensible proposition that it is somehow an elevation of human consciousness to divorce ourselves from everything our instinct and eyes would have us believe and instead believe highly improbable constructions because someone tells us they are the work of a divine being. Faith is perhaps the most insidious concept ever introduced to humanity... its really nothing more than a desperate hedge against fear of the unknown.
S(Thousands of years of war and strife... brought to you by... faith)D
