Ah, but a belief in God is technically as rational as no belief in God, because there is no proof either way. Obviously, I believe in God, just as you don't, but again, I think everyone has the right to make up their own minds.
Blind faith troubles me. Lots. Not least as I think faith needs to be active & to be questioning to really be faith. I'm not saying constantly questioning, but as you grow and evolve and change, your understanding of your relationship with God should change too.
Rampant atheism (i.e. where people denounce anyone who believes in God as a credulous idiot) bothers me too. It just seems mean & nasty. And indeed a bit foolish, frankly...
Also, we actually have proof of nothing. Everything in life is based on a series of beliefs. We believe ourselves to exist, we believe things to have set states of being, we believe in a ridiculous amount of social constructs, we believe there are things like race & gender, when in fact we can't definitively prove there are, because it's all based on things-humans-have-made-up. The whole thing is really a fiction & we just don't-can't know...
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Date: 2007-06-28 02:24 pm (UTC)Blind faith troubles me. Lots. Not least as I think faith needs to be active & to be questioning to really be faith. I'm not saying constantly questioning, but as you grow and evolve and change, your understanding of your relationship with God should change too.
Rampant atheism (i.e. where people denounce anyone who believes in God as a credulous idiot) bothers me too. It just seems mean & nasty. And indeed a bit foolish, frankly...
Also, we actually have proof of nothing. Everything in life is based on a series of beliefs. We believe ourselves to exist, we believe things to have set states of being, we believe in a ridiculous amount of social constructs, we believe there are things like race & gender, when in fact we can't definitively prove there are, because it's all based on things-humans-have-made-up. The whole thing is really a fiction & we just don't-can't know...