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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It scares me that people believe this BS. Please just die out already. [/quote]

Religion will continue to be influential as long as educated, otherwise rational people teach their children to accept an unseen god that acts in mysterious ways, that sometimes favor them - and sometimes does not.

Luckily, fewer parents are doing that - and fewer children are accepting it and the society is becoming more accepting of non-believers, so that it's not considered weird or dangerous to question religious belief.  There are also many more readily-available sources of information about the facts about religion.[/quote]

I was raised by two parents who thought exactly as you do. I felt a strong connection with God -- a feeling of faith -- from the time I was a young child. I was ridiculed by my parents for it. I feel a strong sense of faith to this day, despite my upbringing. Faith is a fact if you feel it. Why do you assume that people cannot experience something real unless you yourself experience it too?[/quote]

It seems like you are the person making assumptions -- if you feel it, it's a fact. And the fact is whatever you interpret it to be.

No - facts are not simply personal interpretations of feelings.  Luckily, thanks to scientific advances and improved education and communications, more people will understand that.

And I predict that fewer people will say things like "Faith is a fact.  If you feel it" even if that's what they think.  Sort of like how people know better than to say that people of other ethnicities are inferior.  They may think that, but they know better than to say it.[/quote]

You are being illogical -- or you don't understand what faith is. It is "a firm belief in something for which there is no proof." It is a fact that some people have faith. It has nothing to do with WHICH religion they believe. So, uh, it's somehow similar to thinking people of other ethnicities are inferior -- where in the world do you get that? Totally unrelated. [/quote]

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