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"Danie|_ Swan" <DAN@ZIONIST-HEADQUARTERS.com> wrote in message
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> In article <hGQod.309646$Pl.266071@pd7tw1no>, you.dont.get@it.com says...
> >
> >Helper Monkey Assault Squad 7 wrote:
> >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:40:51 GMT, DAN@ZIONIST-HEADQUARTERS.com
> >> (Danie|_ Swan) wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>No, faith is belief in something without proof.  Since proof doesn't
exist
> >>>>>faith can be based on a hunch, a "gut feeling", or highly developed
tools
> of
> >>>>>reasoning.  Personally, I choose the latter to build my faith on.
> >>>>
> >>>>Ok. I'll bite. How do your highly developed tools of
> >>>>reasoning lead you to believe in God?
> >>>
> >>>They don't, they've led me to atheism.
> >>
> >>
> >> Oh well, so much for that argument.
> >
> >Yes, and it's still just a belief. A blind leap of faith,
>
> Wrong, it's a leap of faith but it is not a 'blind' leap of faith because,
as I
> said, the leap of faith is based on highly developed tools of reasoning.
>
Higly developed tools of reasoning have no place in faith. Faith is a belief
or affirmation in the absence proof or reason.  That being said, reason has
no place in faith.  Even a wrong conclusion can be arrived at using reason
if the premises are flawed.  However, it is then a wrong conclusion, not
faith.

>
> >choosing to
> >ignore any possible evidence that may show up to the contrary.
>
> Uh, no.  If any new evidence comes along I'll be using critical thinking
skills
> to evaluate it.
>
>
> >There will always be some level of balance. The more people there are
> >that believe something, the less they have to believe it, to keep hold
> >of their 50% weight. If there's just 1 person who believes God is a
> >sardine on some moldy old pizza that talks to him and that the earth is
> >an inverse loop, which there most certainly is, SOMEWHERE, that's all it
> >takes to balance out all those who believe otherwise.
>
> Balance what, psychic energies?
>