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Old 12-24-2005, 10:01 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I think both religious people and athiests are crazy and liars. Why hold a belief about something that a human can never know the answer to?
Yeah, since when was saying "I don't know" horrible and wrong?
There can't be an I dont know in faith you either believe or you don't, when will you guys learn.
Saying "I don't know" is more honest than faith. That is why I could never be religious. Not honest enough for me.
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I think both religious people and athiests are crazy and liars. Why hold a belief about something that a human can never know the answer to?
Yeah, since when was saying "I don't know" horrible and wrong?
There can't be an I dont know in faith you either believe or you don't, when will you guys learn.
Saying "I don't know" is more honest than faith. That is why I could never be religious. Not honest enough for me.
Religion requires strong faith, saying I dont know is not faith. God does not let the I dont knows into heaven he lets the I knows into heaven.
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Religion requires strong faith, saying I dont know is not faith. God does not let the I dont knows into heaven he lets the I knows into heaven.
I think in my religion, he let's the I don't knows into heaven. (Episcopalian)
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I think in my religion, he let's the I don't knows into heaven. (Episcopalian)

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I think both religious people and athiests are crazy and liars. Why hold a belief about something that a human can never know the answer to?
Yeah, since when was saying "I don't know" horrible and wrong?
There can't be an I dont know in faith you either believe or you don't, when will you guys learn.
Saying "I don't know" is more honest than faith. That is why I could never be religious. Not honest enough for me.
Religion requires strong faith, saying I dont know is not faith. God does not let the I dont knows into heaven he lets the I knows into heaven.

If dishonesty works for you... faith is great!
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I think that Aquinas described it best. Faith is truth without reason.
Aquinas also said that women are naturally subservient to men, and slavery is a-OK.

I hate St. Thomas Aquinas.
I hate him too. In fact, he said that one sentence as a part of a greater justification for God and faith. I just thought he put the athiests argument into words without intending too.
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Religion requires strong faith, saying I dont know is not faith. God does not let the I dont knows into heaven he lets the I knows into heaven.
That is one religious doctrine out of a multitude of them. To say that one is right and the other isn't is impossible because WE DON'T KNOW. Like Ridin said in the Episcopalian Church, the "I don't knows" can still get into Heaven. Well, how do you know? Are you going to invoke FOIA and get Heaven to send down a member list? I don't know seems like a perfectly logical place to start. People start at I don't know then adopt answers as they grow up...and most people get those answers from somebody else. The fact that you said IDK's don't go to Heaven and Ridin said in his church they can illustrates to me beyond anything that people choose the answers that satisfy them. Beggars and Choosers.
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I intended my last statement to be a joke..but that didn't really work out.

It's just the type of faith you have have and the religion you practice. Even though my religion differs from others, which supports aMFliberal's point that Heaven needs to send down a member to say what's truly right or wrong, I will continue to have faith in the basic principles of a higher being and the 10 commandments.
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Religion requires strong faith, saying I dont know is not faith. God does not let the I dont knows into heaven he lets the I knows into heaven.
I think in my religion, he let's the I don't knows into heaven. (Episcopalian)
Ahhh... you are an Anglican Catholic huh?


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