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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether you want to admit it or not, you already believe in lots of things about how the universe works, how people should treat each other, the nature of love, and if you are living in the DMV — very likely — the importance of equality, justice, fairness, respect.   And yet, you can’t scientifically “prove” any of these things and many societies across history have had no respect for them at all — including Ancient Rome before Jesus.  You have a very strong faith, even if you don’t realize it.

Once you come to grips with the fact that we have all have faith and belief, it becomes easier to investigate what you truly believe, what are the origins of it,  and whether or not there is a much deeper meaning and purpose in life.

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No, nothing you said is true.  Nothing you named is claimed by anyone to be a thinking being or supernatural.  Those things you mention are all emergent properties of a brain and none exist without a brain.

So, fail.  100% fail.[/quote]

From a historical perspective, what the PP said is entirely true. Most Americans such as yourself have no understanding of pre-classical antiquity history, specifically the predominant ethical mores and rules which societies lived by. [/quote]

No, that is more BS.  PP’s primary claim was that everyone has “faith”.  And that is false, with anything other than an unreasonably broad definition.

Your pseudo intellectual word salad is designed to obscure the fact that your point is ridiculous.[/quote]

I’ll use simple words so that you can understand.

PP used the word faith to mean “belief”, which is technically what it means, a belief in truth.

“Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony”

And you, most likely, do have a deep belief (or faith) in things like the importance of fairness, justice, equality, and respect. These are not universally held ethical values as most westerners tend to mistakenly believe, but in fact a historically anomalous morality that evolved from one person, Jesus Christ. 
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