The Grand Illusion

[Iacchus]

At least you know your wife exists.

Yeah, at least you're conscious, and capable of believing in something.

 

[stamenflicker]

Dr. A,

If I believed that there was a God, I should certainly trust him. I would trust my wife --- if I believed I had one. But I am single and I can find no God in the world I live in.

But then we are both answering our own questions aren't we? I like the quote and I can't remember who said it:

"For the one with faith, no explaination is necessary; to the one without faith, no explaination is possible."

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[Johnny Pneumatic]

Just out of curiosity, do you believe that true faith must acknowledge the possibility that God does not exist? In other words, if you're genuinely interested in the truth, can you do so by claiming that God must exist, or is there wiggle room on this?

My own belief is that if you are searching for Truth, you must acknowledge that believing in God could be fruitless, that He may not even exist.

True Faith is that nothing, not even mountains of reality will shake you from your belief.

If one is interested in the truth, faith is a piss poor way to go about it. Sure, a few can luck-out into happening to have faith in what's real; like a few people do win the $70,000,000 multi-state lotteries. Most loose though. Faith isn't based on anything more than you wish it were true.

"Faith" is shorthand for being stupid enough to believe what you hope is true, is true-Me