QUOTE (Gaara @ Oct 25 2007, 06:23 PM) Your lack of faith is unsettling. Do you have any faith or do you always have to see something in order to believe it in your heart? what is faith my friend? pretending something is there that is not, it is a statement "I will believe in this although it is not true or unprovable, I will swallow this lie and not question". I find it incredibly unsettling that so many people buy into the lies of religion. It spills over into real life where we have faith in a president, who abuses our faith and launches into a war on a lie. Faith is ridiculous, and the word itself is an abomination and should never be glorified. QUOTE (Theophage @ May 21 2007, 04:58 AM) QUOTE (insidius @ May 20 2007, 11:20 PM) Hell, if half the people who were religious followed their beliefs to the T, we'd have a lot less problems in this world. Actually, I would think the opposite to be true. Fundamentalists seem to be causing a lot of the problems -- you don't see religious moderates flying airplanes into skyscrapers or blowing themselves up in crowded marketplaces. Just a thought... most people believe that fundamentalists practice a perversion of their faith (I can speak for the Muslims on this one). They have a preconcieved agenda and find a way to demonstrate it through their religion, transforming a regularly 'evil' idea into a 'holy and righteous' idea.