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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Then you experience no shortage of faith in things that cannot be proven. You've assigned value to things absent any proof of the "goodness" of it. That's what I mean by religion. Everyone has it. Those that don't are comatose.
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Faith is not part of my life.I'll settle for what is.'Goodness' is a subjective word.It can't be quantified.There are no 'Goodness-o-meters.'I attempt to incorporate no such language in my communications.To say that 'everyone' implies that you personally know 7.5-billion people,and their most secret and privileged thoughts.That's hard to abide by.Americans are described by some as, mindless automatons,wandering aimlessly in the dark,muttering incantations.Is it these that you believe comatose?
How much proof do you need,that if you were to be pushed off El Capitan,at Yosemite Park,that in all likelihood you would not survive the fall.You have no a priori knowledge.It remains an unproven theory until you're pushed.Do you cling to that theory in the face of uncertainty? The theory has value,absent any proof?