Religion and Atheism

[KanadaHye]

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I dont believe or following anything, a lot of my friends ask "how do you get through life without hope." I find it irrelevant to me being a nonbeliever because i dont need "hope" or "faith" to get through tough times. I respect those who are religious, really i do. I just cant.

You can't get through life on your own, eventually you'll run into a problem that you can't "fix" or won't just go away and having faith in someone else's abilities will be your only solution to the problem.

[Siggie]

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You can't get through life on your own, eventually you'll run into a problem that you can't "fix" or won't just go away and having faith in someone else's abilities will be your only solution to the problem.

How will faith in someone else solve the problems that aren't fixable?

[KanadaHye]

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How will faith in someone else solve the problems that aren't fixable?

The key word in the sentence was "you".

[Siggie]

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The key word in the sentence was "you".

How will having faith in someone else be MY solution?
Do you ever answer a question that's posted?

[KanadaHye]

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How will having faith in someone else be MY solution?
Do you ever answer a question that's posted?

Solution - The answer to or disposition of a problem.

[Siggie]

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Solution - The answer to or disposition of a problem.

[Sip]

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You can't get through life on your own, eventually you'll run into a problem that you can't "fix" or won't just go away and having faith in someone else's abilities will be your only solution to the problem.

This is fine and I agree. It is good to have faith in other things than just your own abilities. I think the problem with religion is having blind faith in make believe things. That is the problem. But having faith that a doctor can heal your wounds, or a fireman who can put out the blaze on the hill by your house, or that rain in the future will nurture your crops is definitely a good thing in life. These have basis in reality. There is a reason to have such faith.

But sitting at home with a bad illness having faith that God will cure you or praying to God that the fire next door will be put out by divine intervention is the dangerous kind of blind, base-less faith that drives atheists nuts about the religious folk.

[KanadaHye]

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This is fine and I agree. It is good to have faith in other things than just your own abilities. I think the problem with religion is having blind faith in make believe things. That is the problem. But having faith that a doctor can heal your wounds, or a fireman who can put out the blaze on the hill by your house, or that rain in the future will nurture your crops is definitely a good thing in life. These have basis in reality. There is a reason to have such faith.

But sitting at home with a bad illness having faith that God will cure you or praying to God that the fire next door will be put out by divine intervention is the dangerous kind of blind, base-less faith that drives atheists nuts about the religious folk.

Yeah, that's pretty much wishful thinking.

[Siggie]

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But sitting at home with a bad illness having faith that God will cure you or praying to God that the fire next door will be put out by divine intervention is the dangerous kind of blind, base-less faith that drives atheists nuts about the religious folk.

This is what I thought he meant and that's why I wanted him to clarify, but he refused.

[KanadaHye]

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You can't get through life on your own, eventually you'll run into a problem that you can't "fix" or won't just go away and having faith in someone else's abilities will be your only solution to the problem.

But sitting at home with a bad illness having faith that God will cure you or praying to God that the fire next door will be put out by divine intervention is the dangerous kind of blind, base-less faith that drives atheists nuts about the religious folk.

This is what I thought he meant and that's why I wanted him to clarify, but he refused.

Probably because you can't interpret written words and automatically assume the meaning due to bias.