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People without faith have a hard time understanding faith.
It's not logical and cannot be grasped through logical means. A logical examination of faith will yield one result: that faith is illogical.
Why would anyone believe in something that is not measurable, observable, or provable? Moreover, why would anyone massively and permanently change their lifestyle in the pursuit of such faith?
Without delving too deeply into any philosophical speak: what goes on inside your own head is your own business. Even the most self-actualized of us operate with varying degrees of denial and delusion that act as coping mechanisms to protect us from despair, depression, or stress.
Due to the fact that answering the human condition (or gender condition) can be difficult and cause stress, many use faith and religion as mechanisms in order to help answer the condition in the same way an empiricist would use science.
In this way, religion is no different than science in what it seeks to ultimately do. The opposition comes in how they arrive at their end point: religion is based on the power of blind faith fueled by trust in the superiority of the divine and inferiority of the human. Science is based on the power of logic fueled by doubt and the idea that humans can eventually know and understand all things to the point wherein they transcend the human condition entirely.
Jul 16, 2012, 4:19:12 PM
Posted to Hank in Heaven, Hear Our Prayer