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Thread #150803 Message #3516693
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-May-13 - 08:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Militant Atheism' is a propaganda term
Subject: RE: BS: Strident atheism not a religion
Steve Shaw, despite your preconceived notions about what and how I believe, my faith really doesn't work that way
The only notions I have about what and how you believe are what you tell me.
and it certainly doesn't impair my ability to study the science of things.
Well I think you may be wrong about that. Do you believe that God creates things? Started everything off? That he's the guiding light behind the laws of the universe? A force that ramifies through everything? The spirit that breathes life? If so, I think your ability to see nature for what it really is is seriously impaired. If you see that beautiful flower and even think of thanking God for it, you're seeing things all wrong. But if it gives you joy, so be it.
My faith gives me joy
Maybe so. But no faith can trump edification and joy through knowledge. And knowledge takes endeavour and hard work to achieve, never achieved by having it poured over you, unlike accident-of-birth faith.
The life so short,
the craft so long to learn,
Th' assay so hard,
so sharp the conquering.