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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You either have it or not and it usually develops after a personal experience (and not by pushy parents like some PPs want to imply). [/quote]

Sure, and "faith" is a natural human impulse--whether it's a quirk of neurology or some deeper mystery--but it's a bit like the baby duckling that imprints on the first thing it sees:  when you have "faith that Jesus is in your life", or some such thing, that's a purely social artifact.  If you'd lived in 17th century rural India, the odds you'd have "faith that that cow is an incarnated deity" is about 100%.  That "Jesus (or Mohammed, or Joseph Smith) is some sort of divine prophet" roughly 0%.[/quote]

And you're completely right. I'm Christian, DH's family is Hindu, both parents have PhDs, live in the city and they worship the bush in the front yard (there's no reason to go back in time).

DH does not believe in it (or any other religion) but he does not judge me or them. Faith is personal.

BTW Christianity made all the way over here because of the martyrs that's for sure but some people have revelations and seek answers even without being formally preached and converted (my mom was one of them).

Like I said, [b]belief is based on faith[/b] and the day we are able to prove anything all the value of faith will be thrown away and if you know at least a bit about Christianity you'll know that this will never happen. [/quote]

Absolutely true.  "Faith" is a neurological impulse--we're "made that way".  Whether that's because God made us, or it's just a quirk of biology is unknowable.  But "faith" is a vessel into which any particular "religion" is poured.  Without faith, no religion.  Also, it has nothing to do with Christianity--the Vikings who grew up in a culture where Valhalla was assumed to exist could not imagine "throwing that away" based on appeals to reason either.

Imagine a society in which the neurological phenomenon of "deja vu" was seen as the brief enfolding of the fabric of time when some omnipotent deity sneezed.  When we experienced deja vu, that would completely jibe with our preconceptions, and confirm their validity.  Try "arguing" someone out of that.

I find the whole thing completely fascinating. [/quote]

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