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Old 05-01-2020, 10:23 AM
 
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I surmise approximately the same number as would ride a dragon were they to turn out to be real.
Good answer!
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Old 05-01-2020, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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sometimes 80 years isn't enough.
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Old 05-01-2020, 11:31 AM
 
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No one has blind faith, everyone arrives at their belief by observing their own life, some don't realize it but thats what humans do. It can take 80 years to accomplish .

I didn't like ice cream, I changed my mind and now I do.

Its just that simple. If it isn't that simple then something else is at play.
yes, The something else in play is actually doing the best we can to align the belief to the universe.

The answer is probably in between deity and deny everything for personal reasons. The "something in between" will probably match how the universe more than a deity.
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Old 05-01-2020, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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No one has blind faith, ...
All religious people have blind faith.

Faith is believing the postman will show up before 2:00 PM, although sometimes it's much later than that, and usually when you're waiting on something important or that your delivery from Amazon will arrive on the day it's suppose to come, although my DVD player didn't.

Religious people have blind faith in a god-thing they've never seen, are never in communication, and have no freaking clue about anything.
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Old 05-01-2020, 12:53 PM
 
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That's not how we use the term 'Blind faith'. If I may use the old (false) apologetics analogy, we have faith our car will start - because we have a knowledge of the reality of cars and some idea of what an engine does. That's the 'observing' in life if you will.

Blind faith is having a belief in what is not seen or known, only imagined and then preached to others who, if yhey get sucked into it, impose these beliefs on their Observations of life.

It is the old favourite 'equivocation'. The apologetics takes two meanings of 'belief' or 'Faith' and pretends they are the same. You do it with 'Observing our life'.

Have a nice week end. Wash your hands. Both of them.
again, you use convoluted logic to try and distort and obscure what is being talked about. Wash your hands of them." yeah, don't talk about forming a rational statement of belief about god. that doesn't end well for your ,militant anti-god, anti-freedom of religion crusade into the states.

The most valid answer we have is between his deity and your anti-god to stop the united states.

Thats why you run away and hide.
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Old 05-01-2020, 12:54 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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... something that needs to be repeated as often as possible,
"cherry picking" is far more rational than "all hating ot" or "all loving ot".
I second that .
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Old 05-01-2020, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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All religious people have blind faith. *snipped*

Religious people have blind faith in a god-thing they've never seen, are never
in communication, and have no freaking clue about anything.
Blind faith, ugh, is not my favorite thing...causes so many problems...too many to list.
But remember, superlatives hardly ever work. Referring to ''all''...most, yes.
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Old 05-01-2020, 01:02 PM
 
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Religious people have blind faith in a god-thing they've never seen, are never in communication, and have no freaking clue about anything.
How exactly do you know this to be so????
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Old 05-01-2020, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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If God is everything, then we're all inside God.
The universe is inside God.
Yup ...and that's why the limitation that humans now can not feel this Presence is silly..or that this 'Thing' could not
communicate to us clearly and succinctly....hahaha, but did way-back-when only.
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Old 05-01-2020, 01:14 PM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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All religious people have blind faith.

Faith is believing the postman will show up before 2:00 PM, although sometimes it's much later than that, and usually when you're waiting on something important or that your delivery from Amazon will arrive on the day it's suppose to come, although my DVD player didn't.

Religious people have blind faith in a god-thing they've never seen, are never in communication, and have no freaking clue about anything.
You're attaching your lack of experience with God to everyone who has experienced God.

Your Heavenly Father will never let you down, amazon on the other hand....
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