From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 14:32:36 GMT
Ascmjk@aol.com wrote:In a message dated 11/6/2004 11:59:25 PM Central Standard Time, markheyman@infoproconsulting.com writes:
The additional idea that we might want to spend time considering who,
between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, are
the most Christ-like only reaffirms my suspicion that, even among the
relatively strong thinkers one encounters on this list, there is an
unsettling disconnect between the comfort of belief and the
discomfort of truth.
JON: Equally unsettling, if not more so, is the inverse of this. Namely, the comfort of truth and the discomfort of believe. In fact, this is the prevalent phenomena. Belief and faith are not always "comfortable". People often struggle with their beliefs. Truth is easier--indeed, perhaps all *too* easy--to accept.
It's easy to blame faith. What's not so easy is the very real possibility that *lack* of faith is the real danger bearing down on humanity's future. Not only is it fashionable to doubt the existence of God, but the existence of Truth itself.
ERIN: I've been thinking that maybe it isn't a lack of faith, just denial of faith in a "No God". Whether there is a God or no God is an unknown and if you want to make a leap one way or the other fine but just be honest and admit it is a leap of faith, an assumption.
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