10-02-2008, 09:02 AM
I think that one of the most fascinating things about faith-driven beliefs is that they tend to survive often even the greatest of adversities ...
... if you were to look at faith in a slightly more day-to-day sense ... I think it's PROBABLY safe to say that everybody has faith in somebody ... there must be at least one person in each of your day-to-day lives, be it mother, father, best friend or similar, in whom you have what we would class as "faith".
Faith in them to do the right thing ... the right thing by you and for you. Faith in them to live good, wholesome, clean lives ... faith in them to never hurt you ...
... faith to my mind, whether it be in a concept or an ideal or a person or a place, ought not be brought into doubt or question ... nor ought it to be up for challenge.
I have faith that there is life after death. I have faith that there is a God, and that we are assessed on how we have lived our lives when we die ...
I have faith in the concept of reincarnation, as a method of bettering ourselves and/or repenting for the mistakes we have made in past lives ...
... I have faith in people ... and in my brothers ...
If I didn't have faith, I would be a broken man ... but my faith is my own - I don't push it onto other people ... it's a quiet, unspoken love for the things I truly believe in ... and nothing will shake that
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... so whilst I don't think it's courteous of people to challenge the beliefs of others, where those beliefs are held to be pure and true, and where they are not doing anybody any harm by holding them ? Equally I don't think it's a terrible wrong to call them on it, as true faith in ANYTHING should be able to survive these type of tests ...
I do have a problem with people that seek to recruit others into their faith, or who judge others by the standards set by their faith ... e.g. religious zealots and martyrs. Nobody should have to die because you have a faith that differs from theirs.
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... if you were to look at faith in a slightly more day-to-day sense ... I think it's PROBABLY safe to say that everybody has faith in somebody ... there must be at least one person in each of your day-to-day lives, be it mother, father, best friend or similar, in whom you have what we would class as "faith".
Faith in them to do the right thing ... the right thing by you and for you. Faith in them to live good, wholesome, clean lives ... faith in them to never hurt you ...
... faith to my mind, whether it be in a concept or an ideal or a person or a place, ought not be brought into doubt or question ... nor ought it to be up for challenge.
I have faith that there is life after death. I have faith that there is a God, and that we are assessed on how we have lived our lives when we die ...
I have faith in the concept of reincarnation, as a method of bettering ourselves and/or repenting for the mistakes we have made in past lives ...
... I have faith in people ... and in my brothers ...
If I didn't have faith, I would be a broken man ... but my faith is my own - I don't push it onto other people ... it's a quiet, unspoken love for the things I truly believe in ... and nothing will shake that
mile:.... so whilst I don't think it's courteous of people to challenge the beliefs of others, where those beliefs are held to be pure and true, and where they are not doing anybody any harm by holding them ? Equally I don't think it's a terrible wrong to call them on it, as true faith in ANYTHING should be able to survive these type of tests ...
I do have a problem with people that seek to recruit others into their faith, or who judge others by the standards set by their faith ... e.g. religious zealots and martyrs. Nobody should have to die because you have a faith that differs from theirs.
xx
!?!?! Shadow !?!?!
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