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Is "blind faith" a myth?

Quintessence

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
Rick O'Shez said:
Are you representative of the Pagan community though?
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On this particular item? Without a doubt, considering direct experience and practice is a root of the movement. Faith is pointless or foreign when you focus on directly experiencing and knowing.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Quintessence said:
These aren't the same thing as a monotheist using the exact phrase "blind faith." I'll stand by what I said earlier in the thread. And as Laika observed, I've seen it used to ridicule or criticize monotheists - it's a label outsiders put on them, not one they adopt themselves.
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Take a look at any one of our many "free will" threads and you'll find people arguing that God has denied us evidence of his existence because evidence would deny us the opportunity for faith. I don't think it's unfair or ridicule to call this sort of faith "blind faith".

The fact that you personally find this sort of faith ridiculous doesn't make it a caricature; it just describes people other than you.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Quintessence said:
These aren't the same thing as a monotheist using the exact phrase "blind faith." I'll stand by what I said earlier in the thread. And as Laika observed, I've seen it used to ridicule or criticize monotheists - it's a label outsiders put on them, not one they adopt themselves.
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Take a look at any one of our many "free will" threads and you'll find people arguing that God has denied us evidence of his existence because evidence would deny us the opportunity for faith. I don't think it's unfair or ridicule to call this sort of faith "blind faith".

The fact that you personally find this sort of faith ridiculous doesn't make it a caricature; it just describes people other than you.
 
Thief

Thief

Rogue Theologian
Mestemia said:
Not that exact quote, no.
But there are a couple members who dance around it....

For example "Faith Requires No Proof" is a favoured dogma of one particular member
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faith requires no proof ....is found in Webster's
it is not dogma
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
Quintessence said:

On this particular item? Without a doubt, considering direct experience and practice is a root of the movement. Faith is pointless or foreign when you focus on directly experiencing and knowing.
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So in what sense do you "directly experience" your gods?
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
Thief said:
faith requires no proof ....is found in Webster's
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I didn't know that, I thought it was hops. Nice pint anyway!

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