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[abluepenguin]

For a long time, i have believed that religion has had two distinct uses for the people of the world as we know it now. Long ago did we desolve it's third use: the need to explain phenomena. Luckily through ages of persecution science made it's way past the blinders of the world, and people said, "ok fine i guess you are right" begrudgingly

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I knew there was a reason I loved you....

[ravyn2wolf]

Brava, maestro!!

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[trineket]

i have a certain discussion with a friend often.
I don't believe in things I cannot see or prove
If I stab someone, they bleed, and therefore I know their heart is pumping. The wind blows, the day turns to night; therefore I know the earth is moving. I can use precise mathematical calculations to determine how far a person can see across the horizon and by doing that can prove that the earth's surface is round.
What I cannot prove beyond a shadow is that God rested on the 7th day, Moses parted the red sea, Zeus lived on a mountain and turned himself to a white bull to seduce Io. I can only go on the stories of other people who have been telling these stories for a very, very long time.
But he says that the point of belief and faith is that you don't know, you just belive.
I say that's blind and foolish. He says that others might say my belief in only what I can prove is foolish.

and we're at an impasse.
i lost my train of thought but there ya go.
peace
carlie

The more things change, the more they stay the same

[anonymous]

So it's almost 2:00 in the morning and I have two final papers due tomorrow, one of which I have yet to start writing, and I think to myself: I wonder how Etienne's doing. And I check his livejournal to see the same sentiments from him I've seen so many times, and now, thanks to the focus of my studies (I'm doing a minor in religion, and am loving it), perhaps I can provide him for some places to look for the answers to questions that scholars have been asking for ages