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Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:10:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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If the answer is “faith” once again, then I can only infer that the
statement “I have faith” is the same as “I’ve stopped questioning it.”
That, to me, is the height of intellectual dishonesty, if only to oneself.
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And on this we disagree. Up until now I’ve been on the side of angels--I mean
Bruce and Hoppy. However, faith does not exclude questions. I question
everything I am able, and have become quite disenfranchised with ‘Religion’.
This does not, in any way, shape and form, diminish my faith in God.
Hence, as a Christian, I’m pretty much willing to wrestle with any and all
issues to come to a better understanding.
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Let me phrase it this way: Do you ask questions that, if answered, could cause
you to reject your faith as invalid? That is, do you ask the kinds of questions
that may require you to abandon your current worldview? If the answer is no,
then I submit that you are being intellectually dishonest to yourself. If the
answer is “no such questions exist,” then you are likewise being intellectually
dishonest. But if you have asked those questions, I’d be interested to learn
what those questions were, what the answers were, and how you arrived at those
answers.
Dave!
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