As a former atheist who’s been learning more about “faith” I don’t know if that’s an accurate portrayal of religious faith. I’ve been learning that what I thought religious people meant from an atheist perspective was very wrong in many ways.
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I think it is. Religious people vary, obviously, but faith is a real thing. Its an epistemology and a way of being in the world. I was deeply religious for a long time and religion is also my area of study.
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For sure, even as I’ve gained? Faith I think much of fundamentalism gets a lot of things wrong, I should have better clarified that. Been reading about orthodox and older aspects and it seemed that until recently Christianity was more symbolic than literal in its interpretations.
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Was something that really surprised and intrigued me. Like, what if there’s something legit to our religious systems, but we’ve just been doing it wrong because we mistakenly think the purpose of religion was supplanted with the advent of science?
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It doesn't even have to be religion. Faith-based epistemologies vs evidence-based ones.
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I think its more complicated than that, though. I think many with religious faith would argue that their beliefs are evidence based. Further, evidence based epistemologies can tell you what something 'is' but not what to do about it.
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But they'd be wrong. Yes. Truth claims and moral claims are difference to a certain extent tho it all reduces to facts in the end. Not relevant to epistemology tho.
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I think it would depend on the claim and the evidence. Its not relevant to epistemology, no, but it IS relevant to religion. That's my point. I think assuming that the purpose of religion is to teach us about the world and its history is incorrect.
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Helen, that doesn't reflect my view of faith even a little bit. But this is a terrible, terrible medium in which to discuss anything that's - uh, what's the mot du jour? Ah! Anything that's "nuanced". The prospect of cramming an entire theology into 280 characters is just... no.
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Religion: A bunch if people sitting in a dark room saying it’s a warm, sunny day outside and telling each other they’re right. Anyone who disagrees is thrown out into the cold, dark night.
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Faith is a virtue, but it’s more than ‘belief’, it’s a mode or way of being in the world, and while dogmas play a key role, merely holding that certain ideas in ones’s head are true, like the Resurrection or the scientific method, doesn’t make one a Christian or a scientist.
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As a baseline, yes. But all of Western Civ. is/was etched out of Faithful Christians & Jews (few centuries, Muslims) cutting through "Orthodoxy" to understand the how, not just faithful why? In science faith is a virtue as well. "Standing on the shoulders of Giants..." and all
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We have to have faith that this premise or that, is correct, to move forward with our forwarding of knowledge.
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