Faith-Based Activism

[lishablog]

There is something very compelling to me about faith-based activism. It is the polar opposite of dead, purposeless religion. It takes philosophy and theology and puts it to work. Faith-based activism, in its best form, says that there is hope for this world when we as individuals and as communities make a commitment to improve things

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[tddpirate]

Questions raised by the above item:
1. Do you need to feel belonging to a group of people sharing your faith with all its details and nuances? Or would it suffice if you held your own private beliefs, breaking with the nearest organized religion wherever it conflicts with your private beliefs (for example, mostly Jewish but without all those pesky woman inequality promoting details)?
2. Were there events in your life, in which Intervention (Divine, From High, whatever) miraculously intervened in your favor, and without strings held or other inconvenient prices to pay - of the kind which you'd pay if you'd made a soul sale pact with the Devil?
3. Do you have criteria to tell good faith apart from false faith? (I am not saying true vs. false, because faith is orthogonal to truth, at least in the mainstream Jewish religion.)
4. How familiar are you with Arthur C. Clarke's hypothesis about religions and with the psychological factors behind tendency to live a life of faith?

[lishablog]

The questions you ask are more than a single comment will answer, and even more than a single post will answer. Add to that the fact that I'm fairly private about my personal faith. I'll give you some very surface answers, but know that it goes much deeper than this